The Resource Red birds, Mohammed Hanif
Red birds, Mohammed Hanif
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The item Red birds, Mohammed Hanif represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Red birds, Mohammed Hanif represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart. His older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned. His parents are at each other's throats. His dog, Mutt, is having a very bad day and an earthy-crunchy aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Amidst the madness, Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali's whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American "aid" on this war-torn country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages :
- Isbn
- 9780802147288
- Label
- Red birds
- Title
- Red birds
- Statement of responsibility
- Mohammed Hanif
- Subject
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- trueBoys and dogs
- trueChildren and dogs
- trueCivilians in war
- trueDogs
- Humanitarian assistance -- United States -- Fiction
- trueImperialism, American
- Air pilots -- Fiction
- Airplane crash survival -- Fiction
- trueBoys
- trueRefugees
- trueRescues
- trueSoldiers
- trueTeenagers
- trueWar and society
- Middle East -- Fiction
- Muslim teenagers -- Fiction
- trueRefugee camps
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart. His older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned. His parents are at each other's throats. His dog, Mutt, is having a very bad day and an earthy-crunchy aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Amidst the madness, Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali's whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American "aid" on this war-torn country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious"--
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2019.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10736049
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hanif, Mohammed
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Air pilots
- Airplane crash survival
- Muslim teenagers
- Humanitarian assistance
- Middle East
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- Red birds, Mohammed Hanif
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages :
- Isbn
- 9780802147288
- Lccn
- 2018058470
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1080249257
- Label
- Red birds, Mohammed Hanif
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages :
- Isbn
- 9780802147288
- Lccn
- 2018058470
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1080249257
Subject
- trueBoys and dogs
- trueChildren and dogs
- trueCivilians in war
- trueDogs
- Humanitarian assistance -- United States -- Fiction
- trueImperialism, American
- Air pilots -- Fiction
- Airplane crash survival -- Fiction
- trueBoys
- trueRefugees
- trueRescues
- trueSoldiers
- trueTeenagers
- trueWar and society
- Middle East -- Fiction
- Muslim teenagers -- Fiction
- trueRefugee camps
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