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Five disparate lives come together at the intersection of generations of invasion, job, and assault. There's Marcus, an British expat who was simply married to an outspoken Afghani doctor--she was murdered by the Taliban--and opens his home to others, the home itself a unusual and beautiful monument to the inconceivable losses his family experienced...David, an American, previously a spy, who has seen the Afghanis through the invasion of the Russians, the domination of the Taliban, and, now, the incursion of the Us citizens, and who has seen his own ideas of purpose and reason transformed inside out... Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for proof her sibling, a Russian soldier who vanished years before... Casa, a Afghani whose hatred of the Us citizens has plunged him in to the blinding depths of zealotry... and Wayne, an American soldier in the Special Causes in whom David recognizes a dangerous revival of the unquestioning notions of right and wrong that he himself once presented. In mesmerizing, unexpectedly expressive prose, Aslam unveils the intertwining paths that these personas have journeyed, and the intricate ties--of love and desperation, pain and salvation, madness and clarity--that bind them. Through their testimonies emerges a family portrait both timely and ageless, broadly drawn and achingly romantic, of the "continuation of wars" that has shaped, and is constantly on the shape, our world. In its blend of radiant dialect, hypnotic imagery, and unflinching episode, The Thrown away Vigil is a luminous work of fiction.
