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Oct 07, 2011 our lady of alice bhatti feels chaotic by comparison. Sales points rhi lead fiction title of 2011 over,000 copies sold already. But, of course, alice bhatti is no ordinary young woman. May 22, 2012 a few chapters into our lady of alice bhatti, the titular protagonist relaxes on a stretcher between shifts at the chaotic karachi hospital where she is employed as a nurse. Pdf our lady of alice bhatti by mohammed hanif download pdf. Alice is only a junior nurse but, with some instruction from a nurses manual, skills she picked up in gaol and an uncanny healing ability, she lands the job. Read it to know how people on the fringes live in pakistan. Her father is a parttime healer in the french colony, karachis christian slumand it seems she has inherited his parttime gift.
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