The Wasted Vigil

The Wasted Vigil

by 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: ****

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