233 reviews for:

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Jamil Jan Kochai

4.05 AVERAGE

boundye's review

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

marahk's review

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

writenisha's review

3.5

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

automedion44's review

4.25

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

natverse's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

andreat16's review

4.0

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

sabet_af's review

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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peytonaaa's review

4.0

emotional reflective sad

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"He watched clip after clip of systematic rape and mutilation and murder, and all the while, he kept justifying that to take witness, to record and analyze atrocities, was his duty as a scholar, as a historian, as a . . . But the clips, the photographs, even the textual descriptions, warped something in his understanding of his own body. Often, he stared at his hands, touched his skin, and attempted to make sense of all the atrocities that could be committed against flesh, and this contemplation left him sleepless and depressed and afraid. He wondered why God had made humans so malleable, so soft, only to be torn apart on highways or systematically mutilated in dark chambers and black sites, at the hands of beloved men, until the mind could no longer comprehend the suffering of the body and destroyed itself."

amyw2's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

montes's review

4.0

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated