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Echoes of a Distant War
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He signed a contract for a construction job. He didn't know he was signing up for a war.
Arjun Kumar is the first in his family to earn an engineering degree - a future paid for with the only thing his parents had left: their land. But four years of study lead nowhere. No job, no prospects, only the slow shame of watching his family's sacrifice curdle into debt.
Then a recruiter named Rakesh offers a way out: good money, honest work, a chance to finally give back. Arjun signs. Within weeks, he's handed a rifle in a war zone thousands of miles from Bihar, trapped by a lie he only understands once it's too late to undo.
As Arjun learns to survive in the trenches beside Dima - a battle-hardened soldier who becomes the brother he never had - his mother Savitri begins a desperate search of her own, from police stations to recruitment offices to a single, failing phone line, trying to find the son who has simply stopped calling home.
Echoes of a Distant War is a sweeping, unflinching novel about exploitation, sacrifice, and the invisible machinery that turns poverty into cannon fodder - and the love that refuses to let go, even when there's nothing left to hold onto.
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