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99 Nights in Logar

Written by: Jamil Jan Kochai
Narrated by: Ali Nasser
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DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel

“Funny, razor-sharp, and full of juicy tales that feel urgent and illicit...the author has created a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers.” (New York Times Book Review)

A dog on the loose. A boy yearning to connect to his family's roots. A country in the midst of great change. And a vibrant exploration of the power of stories—the ones we tell each other and the ones we find ourselves in.

Twelve-year-old Marwand's memories from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago center on his contentious relationship with Budabash, the terrifying but beloved dog who guards his extended family's compound in the rural village of Logar. But eager for an ally in this place that is meant to be "home", Marwand misreads his reunion with the dog and approaches Budabash the way he would any pet on his American suburban block—and the results are disastrous: Marwand loses a finger, and Budabash escapes into the night.

Marwand is not chastened and doubles down on his desire to fit in here. He must get the dog back, and the resulting search is a gripping and vivid adventure story, a lyrical, funny, and surprisingly tender coming-of-age journey across contemporary Afghanistan that blends the bravado and vulnerability of a boy's teenage years with an homage to familial oral tradition and calls to mind One Thousand and One Nights yet speaks with a voice all its own.

©2019 Jamil Jan Kochai (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction United States World Literature Village Dogs
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What the critics say

“An imaginative, enthralling, and lyrical exploration of coming home - and coming-of-age - set amid the political tensions of modern Afghanistan.... Kochai is a masterful storyteller.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Kochai captures the joys and the sorrows of life in Afghanistan, offering readers a glimpse into everyday life in a country whose people have grown so used to constant bombardment that they can differentiate between various types of IEDs by sound alone.” (Booklist)

“A funny, lightly surreal evocation of life in rural Afghanistan...driven by a profusion of tales within tales, which begin and break off, resume and recur, swerve or blossom into one another.... The magical elements don’t seem so much more far-fetched than the drones in the sky, and the book’s comic register turns out to be wildly elastic...help[ing to] restore a sense of the weight and substance of individual Afghan lives for readers so inured to the large numbers of reported deaths over many years.” (Harper's Magazine)

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