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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. Learn more at wwww.joydeeproybhattacharya.com

About the Author :
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was educated in politics and philosophy at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Pennsylvania. His novels "The Gabriel Club" and "The Storyteller of Marrakesh" have been published in fourteen languages. He lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. Visit him at joydeeproybhattacharya.com.

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"We watch as the resistance of an isolated American garrison in Afghanistan is ground down, not by force of arms but by the will of a single unarmed woman, holding inflexibly to an idea of what is just and right." -J.M. Coetzee, recipient of the Nobel Prize and a two-time Man Booker Prize winner "Roy-Bhattacharya re-animates the timeless themes of "Antigone."..This brave, visceral novel breaks new ground and does what previous versions of "Antigone "never have: It makes each character deeply humane, challenging the reader to sympathize with every one of them." -NPR.org "[The novel] achieves a subtle balance of dramatic forces--personal morality and public order, duty to God and duty to country--that gives it a philosophical depth and wrenching humanity...Mr. Roy-Bhattacharya brings a rigorous and often disquieting sense of empathy to each of his clashing characters. There is no outright villain here, only the collision of people stubbornly holding to what they believe to be right and honorable. This is the essence of tragedy, and it makes "The Watch"the first great novel of the war in Afghanistan." -"Wall Street Journal" "An engaging work of timeless imagination, both vivid and gritty." -"Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star" ""The Watch" is an important war novel." -"Dallas News" "Antigone, the mythological heroine of Sophocles' 2,500-year-old drama, pleads with King Creon to allow her to bury her brother, who died in battle. It must be done or the gods will be unhappy. A beautiful re-enactment of this tragedy plays out in the dust of a forlorn outpost in Afghanistan when a young woman parks herself outside a fort and pleads with American soldiers stationed there to give her the body of her brother slain in the conflict...So worthwhile to read this lyrical drama about the horror of war to find out." -"New Jersey Star Ledger," Kathleen Daley "A heartbreaking and haunting look at the nature and reality of war." -"Wichita Eag


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307955890
  • Publisher: Hogarth Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Hogarth Press
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 290
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 167 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0307955893
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 585 gr


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