The Haunting of Hajji Hotak

Beschreibung

A finalist for the National Book Award - a luminous new collection of stories from a young writer with 'a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers' (New York Times) <BR><BR>**FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION**<BR>**NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ATLANTIC**<BR><BR>PEN/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America.

In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, often starring young characters whose bravado is matched by their tenderness. <BR><BR>The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement - and one that speaks to the immediate political landscape we reckon with today.<BR><BR>'An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent' Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.<BR><BR>'Kochai's short fiction defies expectations - readers' expectations of what a story should look like, and the story of a nation often told reductively and exclusively through media headlines' Guardian

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