99 Nights in Logar

Name: 99 Nights in Logar
ISBN: 9780735235601

Jamil Jan Kochai

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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.
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...

Категорії:

Fiction - Peoples & Cultures - Fiction

Рік:

2019

Видавництво:

Penguin Canada

Мова:

english

ISBN 10:

0735235600

ISBN 13:

9780735235601