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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
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Artikel-Nr:
9780593297193
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.07.2022
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Jamil Jan Kochai
Gewicht:
406 g
Format:
213x143x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar, 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 2018. Currently, he is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022
"An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent." Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.
A luminous new collection of stories from a young writer who has brought his culture s rich history, mythology, and lyricism to American letters. Sandra Cisneros
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, Kochai once again captures a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers. *
In Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. Set in Kabul, "Return to Sender" follows two married doctors driven by guilt to leave the US and care for their fellow Afghans, even when their own son disappears. A college student in the US in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. And in the title story, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak," we learn the story of a man codenamed Hajji, from the perspective of a government surveillance worker, who becomes entrenched in the immigrant family's life.
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.
*The New York Times Book Review
WINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022
"An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent." Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.
A luminous new collection of stories from a young writer who has brought his culture s rich history, mythology, and lyricism to American letters. Sandra Cisneros
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, Kochai once again captures a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers. *
In Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. Set in Kabul, "Return to Sender" follows two married doctors driven by guilt to leave the US and care for their fellow Afghans, even when their own son disappears. A college student in the US in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. And in the title story, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak," we learn the story of a man codenamed Hajji, from the perspective of a government surveillance worker, who becomes entrenched in the immigrant family's life.
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.
*The New York Times Book Review
RISING LITERARY STAR: A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, his debut novel 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019) was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. UNTOLD PERSPECTIVES: These stories explore both modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghani diaspora in the US with great depth and clarity. Kochai offers readers a tender, moving, and vivid portrait of a particular place and time-one we should all know more about, peopled by characters who are immediately recognizable to readers of any background.PROMINENT SUPPORTERS: His work has been praised by major authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Yiyun Li, and NBA Award Winner Karan Mahajan, among others.