The Wasted Vigil

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  • 448

    Pages
  • 9780571238804

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  • 2 mm

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  • 12 mm

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  • 381 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 4 JUNE 2009

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    Description

    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. Marcuss daughter, Zameen, may have known Laras brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcuss wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born. In the da 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. Marcuss daughter, Zameen, may have known Laras...  Read More

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    Nadeem Aslam

    Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to Britain at age 14. His family left Pakistan to escape President Zias regime.

    His novel , winner of the Kuriyama Prize, took him more than a decade to complete. Aslam has stated that the first chapter alone took five years to complete, and that the following story in the book took seven months to complete before rejecting it. At the end, he kept only one sentence of the seventy pages written. Aslams latest novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008. It is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book; but had never visited the country before writing the first draft. On 11th February 2011, it was short-listed for the Warwick Prize For Writing.

    His writings have been compared to those by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kiran Desai and received an Encore in 2005. He writes his drafts in longhand and prefers extreme isolation when working.

    Aslam currently lives in north London.

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