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Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers within an isolated bottom in Kandahar are confronted with a lone woman demanding the go back of her brother's body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic? Or is she what she boasts to be: a grieving young sister objective on burying her sibling relating to local rites? Single-minded in her objective, she won't move from her spot on the field in full view of every soldier in the stark outpost. Her occurrence quickly proves dangerous as the camp's anxious, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil when the men commence arguing in what to do next. Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's heartbreaking and haunting book The Watch takes a classic tragedy and hurls it into present-day Afghanistan. Taking cues from the Antigone myth, Roy-Bhattacharya brilliantly recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of fight, and conveys the inevitable repercussions believed by the soldiers, their families, and by one sister. The result is a gripping tour through the reality of the very contemporary discord, and our most effective expression currently of the type and futility of war.
