No Space for Further Burials

A brutal and "fascinating" novel of an American held captive in an asylum in Afghanistan (Stewart O'Nan).

Set in Afghanistan in 2002, No Space for Further Burials is a chilling indictment of the madness of war and our collective complicity in the perpetuation of violence. The novel's narrator, a US Army medical technician in Afghanistan helping to "liberate" the country from the Taliban, has been captured by rebels and thrown into an asylum. The other inmates are a besieged gathering of so...