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Siobhan Fallon is the author of The Confusion of Languages and You Know When the Men Are Gone, which won the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction.

Author and Army wife Siobhan Fallon shares her experiences as a military spouse, a parent, and a career-driven writer with stories to tell.

Siobhan Fallon is the author of the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner You Know When the Men Are Gone.

She was raised in Highland Falls, New York, just outside the gates of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Siobhan is a military spouse and writer whose husband has deployed three times to the Middle East, including two tours to Iraq out of Fort Hood.

Siobhan Fallon is the author of the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner You Know When the Men Are Gone..

Nadeem Aslam Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

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Nadeem Aslam discusses his latest book, The Wasted Vigil, explaining how he approached writing a book which tackles some of the most challenging issues today, such as global jihads, martyrdom, and terrorism.

What made you choose Afghanistan as a setting for The Wasted Vigil
In 1992, when I finished my first novel I more or less tossed a coin to determine what book I would write next: my Afghanistan novel or my British-immigrant novel.

Both subjects seemed equally urgent—a bloody civil war had begun in Afghanistan, and the Pakistani immigrant community in Britain seemed well advanced on the path that would lead to the suicide bombings on July 7, 2005.

I began to write Maps for Lost Lovers, my immigrant novel, and as soon as I finished it in spring 2003, I started work on The Wasted Vigil.

When in the 1980s, the USA and Saudi Arabia began funding and arming the Afghan mujahidin, my family and friends in P