It's September, 2002, one year after 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan. A U.S. army medical technician is taken captive by Afghan rebels while on a recce mission, and thrown into an asylum with a dozen or so other inmates. Are they refugees from the war? Derelicts? Fugitives on the run? Men and women mad with grief and loss, or just exhausted by the repeated violation of their country?This astonishingly powerful novel unfolds the tragedy of Afghanistan, as ...
