Ali Narrates "99 Nights in Logar" Audiobook

Ali celebrated Thanksgiving this year with an amazing milestone: recording and narrating his first English audiobook for Jamil Jan Kochai’s upcoming release 99 NIGHTS IN LOGAR. The fiction novel is a coming-of-age story of one boy’s journey across contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring home the family dog. Ali is thankful for Samantha Somero at CESD Talent for making it happen, and director Maureen Monterubio, producer Sarah Jaffe as well as the team at Penguin Random House Audio for their support and encouragement throughout this incredible journey. The full audiobook is available for download now, and we couldn’t be more excited for you to listen to it.

“Ali Nasser creates a vivid vocal portrait of this unusual coming-of-age story.”

— AudioFile Magazine

Listen to a sample of the audiobook below.

A coming-of-age story about one boy's journey across contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring home the family dog, blending the grit and immediacy of voice-driven fiction like We Need New Names with the mythmaking of One Thousand and One Nights.

Twelve-year-old Marwand's memories from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago center on his contentious relationship with Budabash, the terrifying but beloved dog who guards his extended family's compound in Logar. Eager to find an ally in this place that's meant to be "home," Marwand approaches Budabash the way he would any dog on his American suburban block--and the results are disastrous: Marwand loses a finger and Budabash escapes.

The resulting search for the family dog is an expertly told adventure, a ninety-nine-night quest that sends Marwand and his cousins across the landscape of Logar. Moving between celebrations and tragedies, deeply humorous and surprisingly tender, 99 Nights in Logar is a vibrant exploration of the power of stories--the ones we tell each other, and the ones we find ourselves in.

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AudiobooksAli NasserNovember 21, 2018Voiceover