The lost vigil

Afghanistan is the setting for this novel, whose three main characters, all foreigners, are connected to the country by their losses. The plot converges on a house whose walls and occupants bear the scars of history. From this beautiful narrative emerge memories of the shock Afghans felt when the United States proposed suicide as a way to combat the Russians, of women's independence before the arrival of the Taliban, and of the 2 million deaths in the conflicts.