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Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be: a grieving young sister intent on burying her brother according to local rites? Single-minded in her mission, she refuses to move from her spot on the field in full view of every soldier in the stark outpost. Her presence quickly proves dangerous as the camp’s tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil when the men begin arguing about what to do next.
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya’s heartbreaking and haunting novel, The Watch, takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present-day Afghanistan. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth, Roy-Bhattacharya brilliantly recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of battle, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by the soldiers, their families, and by one sister. The result is a gripping tour through the reality of this very contemporary conflict, and our most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility of war.
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"Classical ideas of human dignity and honour are juxtaposed with the squalor of modern war in this important novel... A beautiful and heartfelt lamentation" (Eileen Battersby Irish Times)
"His lyrical prose captures superbly the brutal realities of combat" (Francesca Angelini Sunday Times)
"Scorching, tightly wired... It's a reminder that blood fueds are as old as humanity itself" (Claire Alfree Metro)
"Written with restrained power" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan" (Wall Street Journal)
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"His lyrical prose captures superbly the brutal realities of combat" (Francesca Angelini Sunday Times)
"Scorching, tightly wired... It's a reminder that blood fueds are as old as humanity itself" (Claire Alfree Metro)
"Written with restrained power" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan" (Wall Street Journal)
A visceral, unforgettable novel about the brutal realities of life in a war zone
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- PublisherHogarth Pr
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0307955893
- ISBN 13 9780307955890
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