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The Watch
- Author
- Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 September 2014
- Run Time
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan' Wall Street Journal
You’ve had no sleep since the firefight last night.
The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate.
She says she has come to claim the body of her brother killed in last night’s attack.
Is she a terrorist? A spy? A lunatic?
Or what she says she is – a grieving sister?
What should you do?
What do you do?
Shortlisted for the Criticos Prize and the Boeke Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the DSC Asian Literature Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Ten best contemporary war novels.
Critics Review
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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
Irish Times
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His lyrical prose captures superbly the brutal realities of combat
Sunday Times
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Scorching, tightly wired... It's a reminder that blood fueds are as old as humanity itself
Metro
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Written with restrained power
The Times
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The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal
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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.
JM Coetzee
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An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent set an example of courage and honesty.
Giles Foden
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The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.
Aminatta Forna
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A poignant and important book about one of the defining events of the start of the 21st century; it is devastatingly eloquent and unequivocal about the fact that there is no glory or beauty in war.
Fatima Bhutto
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A tense, edgy, gripping, important work.
Neel Muckherjee
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Details
- Author
- Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473512658
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- War, combat and military adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place
Synopsis
'The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan' Wall Street Journal You’ve had no sleep since the firefight last night.The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate.She says she has come to claim the body of her brother killed in last night’s attack.Is she a terrorist? A spy? A lunatic? Or what she says she is – a grieving sister?What should you do?What do you do?Shortlisted for the Criticos Prize and the Boeke Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the DSC Asian Literature Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Ten best contemporary war novels.
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