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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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A tale of political intrigue, betrayal, and exile

A group gathers at Haji Hautuk's home to hear the plot of Fahim's novel about a young poet in Kabul who becomes an informant after imprisonment and torture, facing moral dilemmas during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

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