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"In The Wasted Vigil, 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. There's Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for traces of her brother, a Russian soldier who disappeared years before; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the Americans has plunged him into the blinding depths of zealotry; and James, an American Special Forces soldier. Aslamreveals the intertwining paths that these characters have traveled, constructing a timely and intimate portrait of the complex ties that bind us and the wars that continue to tear us apart. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
"An English doctor whose Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his house to a group of individuals who are haunted by the wars in Afghanistan."
"2005, Afghanistan, près de la frontière pakistanaise. Marcus Caldewell s'est installé 40 ans plus tôt par amour pour sa femme dont il a eu une fille, Zameen, qu'il désespère de retrouver. Vers cette maison se réfugient des êtres esseulés, victimes de l'autoritarisme d'une doctrine suffocante. Récit à tiroirs avec de nombreux retours en arrière."
"This novel takes place in modern-day 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 of the 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. But like Marcus's wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born.In the days that follow, further people will arrive at the house, David Town and James Palantine, two American who have spent much of their adult lives in the area, for their respective reasons; Dunia, a young Afghan teacher; and Casa, a radicalised young man intent on his own path.The stories and histories that unfold - interweaving and overlapping, and spanning nearly a quarter of a century - tell of the terrible afflictions that have plagued Afghanistan. A work of deepest humanity, this bookoffers a timely portrait of this region, of love during war and conflict. -- Publisher details."
"Tells the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home--itself an eerily beautiful monument to his losses--to the others: Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for evidence of her soldier brother who disappeared decades before during the Soviet invasion; David, an American, a former spy who has seen his ideals turned inside out during his twenty-five years in Afghanistan; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the West plunges him into the depths of zealotry; and James, the Special Forces soldier in whom David sees a dangerous revival of the unquestioning notions of right and wrong that he himself once held."

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"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Translations"@he
"Powieść angielska"@pl
"Nouvelles anglaises"
"Bestseller 2008 (Englisch)"
"Electronic books"@en
"Romans (teksten)"
"English fiction"@he
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Roman pakistanais de langue anglaise"

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"La vaine attente roman"
"Bezowocne czuwanie"@pl
"Bezowocne czuwanie"
"La veglia inutile"
"La veglia inutile"@it
"בית חמשת החושים"
"Das Haus der fünf Sinne Roman"
"Das Haus der fünf Sinne : Roman"
"The Wasted Vigil"
"La casa de los sentidos"@es
"La vaine attente : roman"
"De vergeefse wake"
"The wasted vigil Nadeem Aslam"
"The wasted vigil"
"The wasted vigil"@en
"Vågenatten : roman"@da
"<&gt"@he
"Bet Ḥameshet ha-ḥushim"

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