The Wasted Vigil

Nadeem Aslam (Author)

The Wasted Vigil
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 September 2009
Pages
448
ISBN
9780571238804

The Wasted Vigil

Nadeem Aslam (Author)

A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora Mountains. Marcus’s daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara’s brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus’s wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born.

In the days that follow, further people arrive at the house: two Americans who have spent much of their adult lives in the area; a young Afghan teacher; and a radicalised young man intent on his own path. And Nadeem Aslam paints a moving, beautiful and powerful portrait of a land and a people torn apart through love and war.

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