The explosive manga issue

About the book: Perhaps you saw me on television after the plane crash. The video is short, and everything that appears in it is a sand-colored Hail, illuminated by the sun, and it was shown only twice in the news summary because its impact was negative on the morale of our armed forces. You would not know from it that we were walking towards the runway behind the photographer in the middle of the stairs, which is still connected to the extra fuel pump and surrounded by a group of alert commandos wearing camouflage suits. With its dull gray body barely touching the ground, the plane looked like a stranded whale on a beach, wondering how it would drag itself into the sea, while its front was bent, awaiting the great mission ahead. The runway is located in the middle of a desert with Bahl Al-Bour, 600 miles from the Arabian Sea, and only a handful of men in khaki military suits walking towards the plane separate it from the scorching sun and the endless shining sands. The face of General Diaa appears briefly in the video, the last televised memory of a man whose pictures have always been taken. His hairline shines in the middle of his head under the sun’s rays, his artificial white teeth sparkle, and his mustache performs its usual small dance in front of the camera... but you will realize as soon as the camera moves away from him that he is not smiling, and if you look more closely, you will discover that he is annoyed and walking with a gait of constipation. Muhammad Haneef was born in Ucora, Pakistan, in 1964, and graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot officer, but he soon resigned to dedicate himself to writing. His first novel, "The Exploding Manga Case 2008," was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book and the Shakti Bhatt Award for Best First Literary Work. His second novel, "Our Lady Alice Patti 2011," was shortlisted for the WELCOM Book Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Number of pages: 351 Year of publication: 2020 Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Printing, Publishing, and Distribution Book cover: Paperback