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.
Told from various points of view, including those of the U.S.
soldiers, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's heartbreaking and haunting
novel takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present-day
Afghanistan. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth,
Roy-Bhattacharya recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of
battle, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by the
soldiers, and their families, and especially one sister. The result
is the most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility
of war.
Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader's guide and
bonus content
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