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1971 Beyond the Lines of Destiny
Paperback
Publisher Price: $8.00
ISBN13: 9789370097261
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Published: Jun 23 2025
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Set against the turbulent backdrop of political unrest in post-Partition Bengal, *Echoes Across the River* is a historical-political novel that weaves together the intimate struggles of two resistance fighters-Nasrin and Anirban-as they navigate love, betrayal, and survival in a world fractured by borders and ideologies.
Nasrin, a defiant revolutionary shaped by the loss of her family during the violent aftermath of Partition, and Anirban, a disillusioned idealist haunted by memories of a vanishing rural Medinipur, find themselves fugitives in a rapidly militarizing Kolkata. With informants hiding in plain sight and allies turning traitors, the two must escape the tightening grip of a collapsing underground network.
Their desperate journey toward Bongaon-a town on the threshold between India and Bangladesh-becomes both a physical and emotional odyssey. Guided by a former schoolteacher-turned-smuggler named Meera and burdened with the knowledge of a comrade's betrayal, Nasrin and Anirban travel through the veins of Bengal's colonial infrastructure: from the tea stalls of Howrah to the labyrinthine lanes of Ranaghat, and finally across the shadowy waters of the Ichamati River.
As they cross landscapes that have long witnessed displacement, rebellion, and sacrifice, they must confront not only the ghosts of their pasts but the question of what lies ahead. Is love possible amidst political upheaval? Can a homeland lost ever be reclaimed-not in maps, but in memory?
1971 Beyond the Lines of Destiny is a poignant tale of resilience, political transformation, and the quiet power of human connection. It is a novel about what survives when the state collapses, borders shift, and nations forget-but people remember.
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