The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home—itself an eerily beautiful monument to his losses—to the others: Lara, f The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home—itself an eerily beautiful monument to his losses—to the others: Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for evidence of her soldier brother who disappeared decades before during the Soviet invasion; David, an American, a former spy who has seen his ideals turned inside out during his twenty-five years in Afghanistan; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the West plunges him into the depths of zealotry; and James, the Special Forces soldier in whom David sees a dangerous revival of the unquestioning notions of right and wrong that he himself once held.
In mesmerizing prose, Nadeem Aslam reveals the complex ties—of love and desperation, pain and salvation, madness and clarity—that bind the characters. And through their stories he creates a timely and achingly intimate portrait of the “continuation of wars” that shapes our world. In its radiant language, its depth of feeling, and its unflinching drama, The Wasted Vigil is a luminous work of fiction. What a wonderful question! Hotmail Hacking Software more. I might start by thinking about the family and substitute-family relationships. The characters fall into overlapping what a wonderful question!
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I might start by thinking about the family and substitute-family relationships. The characters fall into overlapping patterns of the core triangle of 'father/mother/child. Lara and David as substitute daughter and son for Marcus (replacing the lost Zameen and the beautiful village boy whose name I don't think we ever learn); e.g.
Zameen and her child who has a literal father (the Soviet rapist/rescuer) and at least two symbolic fathers (the nameless village boy Zameen loved, and David the American); e.g. David as an older brother-figure for James Palantine, (because James' father Christopher Palantine was a father-figure to David) thus recreating his relationship with his own lost older brother; et al. I might also think about the dual nature of so many characters -- the Soviet rapist/rescuer; the Americans who allow a refugee camp to be bombed; the father-figures who are also killers and betrayers (Christopher Palantine); Casa's mix of attraction and rage toward Duina; Qatrina as a healer who is forced to maim (books and people). Maybe that's not exactly psychoanalytic, but I think characters are constantly finding their empathetic, caring, protective impulses perverted into actions that dominate, hurt, and kill. A lost review of mine rediscovered Satisfying on many levels.