THE WASTED VIGIL Nadeem Aslam ~ PB 2008
Softcover, small repaired tear to edge of front cover, pages are otherwise unmarked. 372 pages, Faber and Faber Ltd., 2008. The photograph forms part of the description. Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan. 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 o