THE WASTED VIGIL
Pocketbok. Faber and Faber Ltd. Pocket uppl. 2008. 436 sidor sidor.
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Marcus Caldwell, an English widower and Muslim convert, lives in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan. Lara, a Russian woman, arrives at his home one day in search of her brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously, and who may have known Marcus´s daughter. In the days that follow, further people arrive there, each seeking someone or something. The stories and histories that unfold, interweaving and overlapping, span nearly a quarter of a century and tell of the terrible afflictions that have plagued Afghanistan - as well of the love that can blossom during war and conflict.
"Stunning... The book is beautiful and brutal" Mohammed Hamif, Independent.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780571238804
- Titel
- Wasted vigil
- Författare
- Nadeem Aslam
- Förlag
- Faber And Faber
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Omfång
- 448 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 127 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 29 mm
- Vikt
- 350 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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.
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