Jamil Jan Kochai Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jamil Jan Kochai

This is the book I've been trying to press into everyone's hands for two years. It's a breathtaking poetry collection. The poems — about war, God, love, Afghan history, migration, and Rilke — will leave you goose-bumped and weeping.

Jamil Jan Kochai

Keep an eye out @J_Escoffery's new book If I Survive You. I had the pleasure to read his stories at Stanford and was blown away by them time and again. Pick it up! https://t.co/yhyRF9jh62

Jamil Jan Kochai

Delighted to see The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories mentioned in the @nytimesbooks review. The paperback version comes out tomorrow, July 11th. Please consider pre-ordering a copy at your local book store or here: https://t.co/6NgbRpcaKt https://t.co/WA6RZkGRGK

Jamil Jan Kochai

Beautifully written and philosophically complex, this heart-shattering collection of linked stories explores political violence, nationalism, memory, and loss as it follows multiple generations of a Japanese family scattered across the world.

Jamil Jan Kochai

I keep a copy near my desk at all times, not just because it’s my favorite novel, but because it’s a book so jam-packed with characters and events and magic and violence that whenever I find myself stuck writing... there’s usually a passage that can provide guidance.

Jamil Jan Kochai

... a focused, factual account of the early war in Afghanistan, when the U.S. military was empowering warlords, torturing civilians, and accidentally assassinating U.S. allies. If you want to understand how the U.S. lost the war, this book is an excellent starting point.

Jamil Jan Kochai

An intoxicating, timely, and beautifully written new novel from @cpamzhang. "Land of Milk and Honey" comes out in September 2023! https://t.co/5K8yUimMXR

Jamil Jan Kochai

A harrowing examination of slavery and colonization and a magical testament to oral storytelling traditions, Texaco is also, in its narrative ingenuity and reckless beauty, comparable to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.