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The Watch: A Novel Roy-Bhattachar
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- Subject
- Action, Adventure
- Topic
- War & Military, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Title/Series
- The Watch
- Publication Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9780307955890
- EAN
- 9780307955890
- Book Title
- Watch
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Item Weight
- 22 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307955893
ISBN-13
9780307955890
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110932852
Product Key Features
Book Title
Watch
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
War & Military, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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 "Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's lyrical and poignant evocation of war is a potent reminder of the murderous futility of our imperial adventures in the Middle East. He captures the raw brutality of industrial warfare, along with its trauma, senselessness, random death and stupidity. His characters, including the soldiers who prosecute the war and the innocents whose lives are maimed and destroyed by it, are consumed alike in the vast orgy of death that sweeps across war zones to extinguish all that is human tenderness, compassion, understanding and finally love. He forces us to face the evil we do to others and to ourselves." Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of NBCC finalist War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning "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, author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir "An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty." Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland and Turbulence " 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, author of Orange Prize shortlisted The Memory of Love "You will remember her voice, this Afghan Antigone! You will remember this American First Sergeant, and this American First Lieutenant! What a masterpiece of the art of fiction--proof, if any were needed, that the Muse is real. Author Roy-Bhattacharya, neither Afghan nor American, faithfully sees and hears the good in both sides, and blows us off our feet in the shock wave from their explosive collision." Jonathan Shay MD, PhD, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America "Merciless and beautiful both, like the Central Asian outpost carved out of sand and war in which it is set, The Watch is a meticulous, gut-wrenching analysis of how we perpetuate violence. It is a reminder that we all--participants and onlookers alike--are complicit in the barbarities of war. It is our responsibility as writers to speak of the cruelty that each of us is capable of: cruelty that in the far-flung desert reaches of the empire, away from public scrutiny, seems to multiply with the wind's breath, like loess grains. Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya fulfills his responsibility superbly." Anna Badkhen, author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban "It is common to speak of certain wars as 'tragedies,' with the implication that as terrible as such wars are, no one is to be blamed for them. This astonishing novel reclaims tragedy's primal roots and locates them in America's occupation of Afghanistan. The Watch is a work of beauty and terror, exacting in its realism, breathtaking in the range of its sympathy, devastating in its judgment." Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Book of Calamities and 7 Tattoos, "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 "Every war spawns its major literary works, and Roy-Bhattacharya's powerful, modern take on the Afghanistan armed conflict resonates with the echoes of Joseph Heller, Tim O'Brien, and Robert Stone." Publishers Weekly , starred review "Difficult to put down, powerful, eloquent, and even haunting." Booklist, starred review "Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya''s lyrical and poignant evocation of war is a potent reminder of the murderous futility of our imperial adventures in the Middle East. He captures the raw brutality of industrial warfare, along with its trauma, senselessness, random death and stupidity. His characters, including the soldiers who prosecute the war and the innocents whose lives are maimed and destroyed by it, are consumed alike in the vast orgy of death that sweeps across war zones to extinguish all that is human tenderness, compassion, understanding and finally love. He forces us to face the evil we do to others and to ourselves." Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of NBCC finalist War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning "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, author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir "An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty." Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland and Turbulence " 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, author of Orange Prize shortlisted The Memory of Love "You will remember her voice, this Afghan Antigone! You will remember this American First Sergeant, and this American First Lieutenant! What a masterpiece of the art of fiction--proof, if any were needed, that the Muse is real. Author Roy-Bhattacharya, neither Afghan nor American, faithfully sees and hears the good in both sides, and blows us off our feet in the shock wave from their explosive collision." Jonathan Shay MD, PhD, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America "Merciless and beautiful both, like the Central Asian outpost carved out of sand and war in which it is set, The Watch is a meticulous, gut-wrenching analysis of how we perpetuate violence. It is a reminder that we all--participants and onlookers alike--are complicit in the barbarities of war. It is our responsibility as writers to speak of the cruelty that each of us is capable of: cruelty that in the far-flung desert reaches of the empire, away from public scrutiny, seems to multiply with the wind''s breath, like loess grains. Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya fulfills his responsibility superbly." Anna Badkhen, author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban "It is common to speak of certain wars as 'tragedies,' with the implication that as terrible as such wars are, no one is to be blamed for them. This astonishing novel reclaims tragedy's primal roots and locates them in America''s occupation of Afghanistan. The Watch is a work of beauty and terror, exacting in its realism, breathtaking in the range of its sympathy, devastating in its judgment." Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Book of Calamities and 7 Tattoos, "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 "Difficult to put down, powerful, eloquent, and even haunting." Booklist, starred review "Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya''s lyrical and poignant evocation of war is a potent reminder of the murderous futility of our imperial adventures in the Middle East. He captures the raw brutality of industrial warfare, along with its trauma, senselessness, random death and stupidity. His characters, including the soldiers who prosecute the war and the innocents whose lives are maimed and destroyed by it, are consumed alike in the vast orgy of death that sweeps across war zones to extinguish all that is human tenderness, compassion, understanding and finally love. He forces us to face the evil we do to others and to ourselves." Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of NBCC finalist War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning "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, author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir "An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty." Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland and Turbulence " 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, author of Orange Prize shortlisted The Memory of Love "You will remember her voice, this Afghan Antigone! You will remember this American First Sergeant, and this American First Lieutenant! What a masterpiece of the art of fiction--proof, if any were needed, that the Muse is real. Author Roy-Bhattacharya, neither Afghan nor American, faithfully sees and hears the good in both sides, and blows us off our feet in the shock wave from their explosive collision." Jonathan Shay MD, PhD, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America "Merciless and beautiful both, like the Central Asian outpost carved out of sand and war in which it is set, The Watch is a meticulous, gut-wrenching analysis of how we perpetuate violence. It is a reminder that we all--participants and onlookers alike--are complicit in the barbarities of war. It is our responsibility as writers to speak of the cruelty that each of us is capable of: cruelty that in the far-flung desert reaches of the empire, away from public scrutiny, seems to multiply with the wind''s breath, like loess grains. Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya fulfills his responsibility superbly." Anna Badkhen, author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban "It is common to speak of certain wars as 'tragedies,' with the implication that as terrible as such wars are, no one is to be blamed for them. This astonishing novel reclaims tragedy's primal roots and locates them in America''s occupation of Afghanistan. The Watch is a work of beauty and terror, exacting in its realism, breathtaking in the range of its sympathy, devastating in its judgment." Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Book of Calamities and 7 Tattoos
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2011-037317
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2012
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