The Watch A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Joydeep RoyBhattacharya Reha Zamani George Newbern Dustin Rubin Zadran Wali Kaleo Griffith Richard Allen Kris Koscheski Random House Audio Books
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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 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.
The Watch A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Joydeep RoyBhattacharya Reha Zamani George Newbern Dustin Rubin Zadran Wali Kaleo Griffith Richard Allen Kris Koscheski Random House Audio Books
The Watch - a kind of modern re-working of Sophocles' Antigone set in Afghanistan - is a richly drawn, quick reading novel. At first I was unsure whether the book was going to be too little nuanced, turning into a nakedly anti-war novel with not much substance. I was relieved to be proven wrong. Not that I am "pro-war" - just that I didn't want to read a novel that was overtly grinding a black or white political axe. Like Sophocles' tragedy, The Watch plays on the dichotomy between nomos (human convention) and phusis (natural law) - that which man conjures to fit his various and changing needs vs. the unwritten trans-personal laws one is "bound" to follow or obey. What I liked about the book is that it presents both sides - the Afghanis and Americans as being oppressed (in a different but quite mutually destructive way) by the same arbitrary laws of mankind - all the while searching, quite poignantly at times, for a way to go beyond them and simply do "what's right". This doing of "what's right" is initially set up, for the sake of poignancy, to fall on the shoulders of a young Afghan girl wishing to bury her dead brother - dead at the hands of Americans defending themselves against an insurgent attack. There is "right" and "wrong" on both sides - reasons for the Americans to be highly suspicious but insensitive and reason to see the girl as principled but displaying a naive devotion. The book revolves around this tension - this confrontation of wills. What the book was so successful at, in my opinion, was its articulation of how war (especially between such too different cultures) makes getting "what's right" so incredibly hard - how the road to hell is truly paved with good intentions. For, when two people(s) don't understand each other how is it possible for one to really help the other? Helping people and achieving a geo-politcal end under the guise of helping people are not the same thing; this is what the book addresses - whether we can break free of the powers that be in this world (our Creon's - to evoke Antigone) so as to allow us enough room to reach out, to extend ourselves far enough, that we may approach something meaningful being done.Product details
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The Watch A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Joydeep RoyBhattacharya Reha Zamani George Newbern Dustin Rubin Zadran Wali Kaleo Griffith Richard Allen Kris Koscheski Random House Audio Books Reviews
This story really brought you into the minds and hearts of the characters. Based on a true story it gave the reader insight and a different viewpoint of war in another culture totally foreign to our own. It certainly opened my mind and heart to the culture of the Afganistan peole.
"The Watch" is a great read. Each chapter presents the storyline from a different character's point of view. The author strongly points out how much reality is warped and distorted in a war zone. After a deadly fire fight, a woman shows up in front of a remote US post in Afghanistan demanding to bury her dead brother. The author takes us through each character'a take on this simple request Is it a trap? Is it a reasonable request? Should the soldiers really care? The unpredictable ending is worth the read.
This book is a must for anyone interested in war literature. I enjoyed this reading and every bit of it.
This book in one I truly couldn't put down. I found myself reading almost the entirety of it in only a few hours and recommending it to everybody I've talked to. As a person who wouldn't typically pick this genre as a typical one to read, I am happy with my purchase as well as the magic of Bhattacharya's writing. He is truly one who has managed to gap the bridge between flashbacks and current situations beautifully.
Each and every passage and point of view was one that was engaging and impeccably thought out and diverse from the others. I found myself engrossed in every chapter, learning about a wide variety of cultures, both in the Middle East and the US, as well as people's natural ignorance to them. Bhattacharya's way of writing is not only captivating, but also seems to flow similar to the way a musical masterpiece. One of the passages I feel shows his mastery of writing is a passage in the First Sergent's chapter on pages 169 and 170. In this we are swept away to a warm, dreamy summer night where he is going to meet his girl after coming back on leave. As the passage progresses, the scenery transitions seamlessly from the magic of the summer bayou to the Afghan night he is actually enduring. With this transition you feel almost the same sense of "snap back into reality" that the first Sargent feels, not realizing you are in a flashback until you are thrown back into reality.
All in all this is a novel that I will be sure to read again. It was one that kept me engaged at every turn, as well as kept me second guessing my own culture and morals that have been engrained into my mentality. This novel has quickly and unexpectedly become one of my favorites, and I look forward to future novels by Bhattacharya.
The Watch is a calculated, unified whole. The limited setting--an American army outpost in Afganistan and its surrounding environment (the desert it sets on and the mountains that envelop it)--effects an atmosphere that charges the action and the themes. This novel could be staged with awesome scenery and special effect lighting. The author's descriptions always contribute to the overall effect of the scene...purpose is paramount. Development is controlled, whether it be character, plot, or idea. Nothing seems extraneous to whole.
This is not a novel about battle; this is really about all the ambiguity soldiers face under the most trying physical and emotional circumstances. It is about how individuals respond under extreme duress in a hostile place of a different culrure. It is about how a variety of soldiers of diverse backgrounds function together and alone away from home and society and the standards, the mores, of civilian life.
Throughout this novel the dialogue, debates, interior monologues, dreamscapes, notebooks and other devices create tension and that builds to climax. Morality. Humanity. These are the issues.
That the final act is determined by ambiguity is Joy deep Roy-Bhattacharya's master stroke to a well written synchronized whole.
The Watch - a kind of modern re-working of Sophocles' Antigone set in Afghanistan - is a richly drawn, quick reading novel. At first I was unsure whether the book was going to be too little nuanced, turning into a nakedly anti-war novel with not much substance. I was relieved to be proven wrong. Not that I am "pro-war" - just that I didn't want to read a novel that was overtly grinding a black or white political axe. Like Sophocles' tragedy, The Watch plays on the dichotomy between nomos (human convention) and phusis (natural law) - that which man conjures to fit his various and changing needs vs. the unwritten trans-personal laws one is "bound" to follow or obey. What I liked about the book is that it presents both sides - the Afghanis and Americans as being oppressed (in a different but quite mutually destructive way) by the same arbitrary laws of mankind - all the while searching, quite poignantly at times, for a way to go beyond them and simply do "what's right". This doing of "what's right" is initially set up, for the sake of poignancy, to fall on the shoulders of a young Afghan girl wishing to bury her dead brother - dead at the hands of Americans defending themselves against an insurgent attack. There is "right" and "wrong" on both sides - reasons for the Americans to be highly suspicious but insensitive and reason to see the girl as principled but displaying a naive devotion. The book revolves around this tension - this confrontation of wills. What the book was so successful at, in my opinion, was its articulation of how war (especially between such too different cultures) makes getting "what's right" so incredibly hard - how the road to hell is truly paved with good intentions. For, when two people(s) don't understand each other how is it possible for one to really help the other? Helping people and achieving a geo-politcal end under the guise of helping people are not the same thing; this is what the book addresses - whether we can break free of the powers that be in this world (our Creon's - to evoke Antigone) so as to allow us enough room to reach out, to extend ourselves far enough, that we may approach something meaningful being done.
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