Book Preview: The Wasted Vigil

[_MuNiYa]

I think I mentioned something here about reading Maps to Lost Lovers and how much I hated this author Nadeem Aslam. Well, as time has passed I’ve found myself thinking more and more about that book and the themes within. I have to admit, it took me a moment to diguest and appreciate his work. I still dont agree with such crudeness but I can force myself to see past that.

Well anyway, the guy is comming out with another book The Wasted Vigil, and it seems very interesting. Thought you guys would like to read a little about it:

Source: Amazon.com

Book Description

From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers (“Extraordinary . . . It deepens our knowledge of life”—The New York Review of Books), 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 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 in the Soviet invasion; David, an American and former spy who has seen his ideals turned inside out; 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, Aslam reveals the complex ties—of love and desperation, pain and salvation, madness and clarity—that bind these individuals. And through their stories he gives us a portrait both timely and achingly intimate of the “continuation of wars” that shapes our world. In its radiant language and unflinching drama, The Wasted Vigil is a luminous work of fiction.