No Space For Further Burials - Tapa blanda

After he is captured by Afghan rebels during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, a U.S. Army medical technician is imprisoned in an asylum, where he spends his days amid a besieged gathering of society's forgotten and unwanted refugees and derelicts. Original.

Feryal Ali Gauhar: Feryal Ali Gauhar studied political economy at McGill University, Montreal, and has worked as a filmmaker and broadcaster in Europe and the United States. Her work as a writer, director, and actor has focus on political marginalization, and she has been imprisoned by two military regimes in Pakistan for her prodemocracy activism. In 1999 she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. Currently she is engaged in doctoral research in Cultural Heritage and Conservation Management. She lives in Lahore, Pakistan with 14 cats, three dogs, a turtle, and four donkeys. No Space for Further Burials is her second novel.