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  The Wasted Vigil (Paperback) By (author) Nadeem Aslam

  

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  Short Description for The Wasted VigilA 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' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 04 June 2009
  • Format: Paperback 448 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780571238804 ISBN 10: 0571238807
  • Sales rank: 19,740

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Full description for The Wasted Vigil

• 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' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus' 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 radicalized 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.