The Haunting of Hajji Hotak

Sobre el libro The Haunting of Hajji Hotak de Jamil Jan Kochai publicado por Bloomsbury al 2025:

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 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ATLANTICPENHemingway 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. 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.An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.Kochais 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