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Cargando... The Wasted Vigil (2008 original; edición 2008)por Nadeem Aslam
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a novel to experience rather than simply to read. Its style is poetic, and brings to life the day-to-day reality of harsh and often brutalised lives. I didn't quite believe in the situation which brought these five characters together, but it didn't matter. The story is powerful and affecting in any case. ( )