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Classical ideas of human dignity and honour are juxtaposed with the squalor of modern war in this important novel... A beautiful and heartfelt lamentation - Irish Times
His lyrical prose captures superbly the brutal realities of combat - Sunday Times
Scorching, tightly wired... It's a reminder that blood fueds are as old as humanity itself - Metro
Written with restrained power - The Times
The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan - Wall Street Journal
We watch as the resistance of an isolated American garrison in Afghanistan is ground down, not by force of arms but by the will of a single unarmed woman, holding inflexibly to an idea of what is just and right. - JM Coetzee
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent set an example of courage and honesty. - Giles Foden
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read. - Aminatta Forna
A poignant and important book about one of the defining events of the start of the 21st century; it is devastatingly eloquent and unequivocal about the fact that there is no glory or beauty in war. - Fatima Bhutto
A tense, edgy, gripping, important work. - Neel Muckherjee
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's lyrical and poignant evocation of war is a potent reminder of the murderous futility of our imperial adventures in the Middle East. He captures the raw brutality of industrial warfare, along with its trauma, senselessness, random death and stupidity. His characters, including the soldiers who prosecute the war and the innocents whose lives are maimed and destroyed by it, are consumed alike in the vast orgy of death that sweeps across war zones to extinguish all that is human -- tenderness, compassion,understanding and finally love. He forces us to face the evil we do to others and to ourselves. - Chris Hedges, author of NY Times Bestseller War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Ours is a time of enduring conflict ... As a soldier and veteran, I want my countrymen and women to understand what they continue to ask their military to endure ... As a person, I want us to remember our common humanity. The Watch confronts all of these without apology ... I applaud it. - Captain Richard Sullivan, U.S. Army
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharyawas born in Jamshedpur, India, and studied politics and philosophy at Presidency College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught literature and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, Bard College and the University at Albany. His novels The Gabriel Club and The Storyteller of Marrakesh have been published in eleven languages across sixteen countries.
