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The Watch

Audiobook

   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.
Chapter:
“Antigone”                                                                Read by Reha Zamani
“Lieutenant” and “Lieutenant’s Journal”                        Read by George Newbern
"Medic"                                                                     Dustin Rubin
"Ismene"                                                                  Zadran Wali
"Second Lieutenant"                                                   Kaleo Griffith
"First Sergeant"                                                          Richard...


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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780449011775
  • File size: 293770 KB
  • Release date: June 5, 2012
  • Duration: 10:12:01

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780449011775
  • File size: 294210 KB
  • Release date: June 5, 2012
  • Duration: 10:11:56
  • Number of parts: 8

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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.
Chapter:
“Antigone”                                                                Read by Reha Zamani
“Lieutenant” and “Lieutenant’s Journal”                        Read by George Newbern
"Medic"                                                                     Dustin Rubin
"Ismene"                                                                  Zadran Wali
"Second Lieutenant"                                                   Kaleo Griffith
"First Sergeant"                                                          Richard...


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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.