The Wasted Vigil (Paperback)
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Vintage Books USA (Sep 8, 2009)
Our Shelf Talker
This is not for the faint of heart, but it is one of the most beautifully written books about an astonishing and devastatingly sad tale of what it means to be in Afghanistan right this minute. This is a story of what its like to be boots on the ground—to know the lives that are lost, to see the bodies that are damaged, to meet the minds that are unraveled. You've read about the war, and you know about what happens, but you can't quite understand it until you pick up The Wasted Vigil.-Roxanne
Description
There's Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for traces of her brother, a Russian soldier who disappeared years before; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the Americans has plunged him into the blinding depths of zealotry; and James, an American Special Forces soldier. Aslamreveals the intertwining paths that these characters have traveled, constructing a timely and intimate portrait of the complex ties that bind us and the wars that continue to tear us apart.