Wasted Vigil

Nadeem Aslam

RRP: £17.99

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 04/09/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

From the author of "Maps For Lost Lovers" comes this moving, epic and beautiful novel of family secrets, forbidden love and the tragedy and consequences of war in Afghanistan. Faber regard Aslam as a novelist of the same quality and popular appeal as Kazuo Ishiguro and Orhan Pamuk, and this is their major literary fiction publication for the autumn.

Publisher's description:

A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. It is possible that Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously.

ISBN: 9780571238774