Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Written by Mohammed Hanif

Narrated by Nimra Bucha

From the Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner comes this rambunctious, uncompromising novel.--The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital need a miracle and Alice Bhatti may be it. She's just been released from jail. She's the daughter of a part-time healer, and it seemed to pass on to her. But, Alice is a Christian in an Islamic world, ensnared in the red tape of hospital bureaucracy, torn between her duty to her patients, her father and her husband.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: May 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781666599336

Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel. His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He has written the libretto for a new opera Bhutto. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi.