99 Nights in Logar
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story about one boy’s journey across contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring hom…
Want to Read $ 12.99"As Gul predicted, later in the day, Rahmutallah Maamaa came into my chamber, by himself, and offered me a juice box, a slice of watermelon, and Budabash’s life. I declined all three."-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
"As Gul predicted, later in the day, Rahmutallah Maamaa came into my chamber, by himself, and offered me a juice box, a slice of watermelon, and Budabash’s life. I declined all three."-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
"As Gul predicted, later in the day, Rahmutallah Maamaa came into my chamber, by himself, and offered me a juice box, a slice of watermelon, and Budabash’s life. I declined all three."-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
"Down the road the voice of a child called out the adhan from the megaphone of a mosque’s citadel, and even with the static and the echo and the cracking of his pitch, it sounded so sweet in the fading light, with the fields darkening, and the crickets chirping their songs."-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
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31. 99 Nights in Logar
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"As Gul predicted, later in the day, Rahmutallah Maamaa came into my chamber, by himself, and offered me a juice box, a slice of watermelon, and Budabash’s life. I declined all three."-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
"Down the road the voice of a child called out the adhan from the megaphone of a mosque’s citadel, and even with the static and the echo and the cracking of his pitch, it sounded so sweet in the fadin…"-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
"If there was a group of men, one of them sipped his chai and told his story, and when he got to a point where he couldn’t continue, the point in the story I most wanted to hear, someone else took a s…"-Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar
