99 Nights in Logar

Author(s): Jamil Jan Kochai

Fiction

What looms in twelve-year-old Marwand's memory from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago is 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.
     But 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.

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General Fields

  • : 9781408898437
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : February 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 288
  • : Feb-19
  • : Paperback
  • : Jamil Jan Kochai