by Nadeem Aslam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571238804
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«The Wasted Vigil» is the literary fiction novel by Nadeem Aslam, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (448 pages, in English).
In contemporary Afghanistan, a widowed Englishman living near Tora Bora and a Russian woman searching for her missing brother receive visits from two Americans and a radicalized young Afghan. Aslam interweaves their stories to explore love, war, and memory.
«The Wasted Vigil» was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing in 2011.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in Afghanistan, war, and its aftermath.
Nadeem Aslam FRSL is a British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now".
