The Wasted Vigil
 

The Wasted Vigil

by Nadeem Aslam

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.... (read more)

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A disturbing and difficult, yet beautiful book. Aslam tells a powerful story of five very different people who all dissected in depth. While brutal, it is a story of love.
A MUST read.

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