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The Watch

The Watch

Author(s): Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Location(s): Kandahar

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 2000s

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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?
The first great novel set during the war in Afghanstan, a modern reworking of the Greek tragedy of Antigone.

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