The Wasted Vigil

Author: Nadeem Aslam

Format: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his homeitself an eerily beautiful monument to his lossesto the others: Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for evidence of her soldier brother who disappeared decades before during the Soviet invasion; David, an American, a former spy who has seen his ideals turned inside out during his twenty-five years in Afghanistan; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the West plunges him into the depths of zealotry; and James, the Special Forces soldier in whom David sees a dangerous revival of the unquestioning notions of right and wrong that he himself once held.

In mesmerizing prose, Nadeem Aslam reveals the complex tiesof love and desperation, pain and salvation, madness and claritythat bind the characters. And through their stories he creates a timely and achingly intimate portrait of the "continuation of wars" that shapes our world.

In its radiant language, its depth of feeling, and its unflinching drama, The Wasted Vigil is a luminous work of fiction.