· Filled with adventure and seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Marwand, Jamil Jan Kochai’s 99 Nights in Logar follows the young boy’s journey across present-day Afghanistan in search of Budabash, the family dog that has escaped.”. —Southern Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. Enlightenment 99 Nights in Logar is a well-crafted novel where the main plot thread is entwined with multiple tales, incidents, interesting characters, enthralling history and a harsh location. There is a common sense of atmosphere from many books based in Afghanistan and it’s probably due to the wonderful writings that depict a culture always guarded against occupying forces and the imposing /5. Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, ), a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The .
99 Nights in Logar. by. Jamil Jan Kochai. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. A coming-of-age story about one boy's journey across contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring home the family dog, blending the grit and immediacy of voice-driven fiction like We Need New Names with the mythmaking of One Thousand and One Nights. 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai review - the heart of Afghanistan In this phenomenal debut, a boy's epic quest across his war-torn country serves as an act of remembrance for a. Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), Playing Metal Gear Solid V ( avg ra.
Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, ), a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai review – the heart of Afghanistan. In this phenomenal debut, a boy’s epic quest across his war-torn country serves as an act of remembrance for a. 99 Nights in Logar is hilariously sad and heartbreakingly funny. Jamil Jan Kochai, a thrilling new writer, achieves in this book that rare quality of a storyteller both ageless and contemporary." - Yiyun Li, author of Kinder Than Solitude "99 Nights in Logar is a revelation, in every sense of the word. An intimate look at childhood, at an Afghan province, at people and places as they deserve to be known, in all their complications.
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