The wasted vigil /

Aslam, Nadeem.

The wasted vigil / Nadeem Aslam. - London : Faber, 2009. - 436 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: 2008.

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 Afghanistan's Tora Bora Mountains. It is possible that Marcus's daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously.

9780571238804 (pbk.) : £7.99


Afghanistan--Social conditions--Fiction.

PR9540.9.A83

823.914