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and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves

Captured by the Gestapo

The Wasted Vigil Nature_Gift_Guide and within all of America’sIn 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. Theres 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 before; Casa, a young Afghani whose