The Watch
A gripping and deeply affecting book that exposes the realities of war.
Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soliders 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 what she claims to be: a grieving sister intent on burying her brother according to local rites? As she persists, single-minded in her mission, the camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next.
The Watch takes an age-old story - the myth of Antigone - and hurts it into present-day Afghanistan. The result is a gripping, deeply affecting book that brilliantly exposes the realities of war. It is also our most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility of this very contemporary conflict.
