The Wasted Vigil

Nadeem Aslam

Original title: The wasted vigil

earliest edition we have, 2008 Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 319 pages

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 bef...

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Editions we hold

Wasted Vigil edition · 2009 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 448 pages · 9780571238804
Wasted Vigil edition · 2009 · Doubleday Canada · 336 pages · 9780385665513
Wasted Vigil edition · 2008 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571246113
The wasted vigil edition · 2008 · Bond Street Books · 319 pages · 9780385665506
The wasted vigil edition · 2008 · Alfred A. Knopf · 319 pages · 9780307268426
The wasted vigil edition · 2008 · Faber · 372 pages · 9780571238774
The Wasted Vigil ebook · 2008 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307270269

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