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The Wasted Vigilby Nadeem Aslam |
Baxter Clare Trautman: Set in Afghanistan, a Russian woman is
searching for her brother who went missing in the Russain-Afghanistan war. She ends up at
the home of a British perfume maker who has lost all his family to war yet clings to the
belief he might yet find his lost grandson. Enter an American ex-CIA agent, his colleague's
son who haas become a Special Forces operative, and a young Afghani man on the verge of his
first jihad. Beautifully rendered, A Wasted Vigil, is a brutal but stirring look at the
sometimes terrible cost of clinging to our beliefs.
Rating: ****
