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|title=The Wasted Vigil

|author=Nadeem Aslam

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=448

|publisher= Faber and Faber

|date=June 2009

|isbn=978-0571238804

|sort=Wasted Vigil

}}

Lara is looking for her brother. Benedikt was little more than a child, scarcely a man anyway, when he was conscripted by the Russian army and sent to fight the Afghans. He went missing one day. ''Missing presumed dead'' is what the official communiqués usually say. But sometimes families find that ''presumed'' too hard to take and need to know for sure.

If this book appeals then you might also enjoy [[The Road Home by Rose Tremain]].

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