Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya with Anderson Tepper of Vanity Fair

Greek plays tend to end with mass death. But in Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya’s novel The Watch, which transposes the myth of Antigone in present day Afghanistan, death is the premise, not the conclusion, of the story.

“ 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.” -- Chris Hedges

Roy-Bhattacharya will be joined by Anderson Tepper of Vanity Fair.