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Knopf
September 2008
On Sale: September 9, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 030726842X
EAN: 9780307268426
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Fiction
The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at
once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told
through the lives of five people who come together in post-
9/11 Afghanistan. Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken
Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home—
itself an eerily beautiful monument to his losses—to 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 ties—
of love and desperation, pain and salvation, madness and
clarity—that 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.
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