Blogchatter A2Z 2019 – Theme Reveal :
‘My Land Across the Border’
After a heart-warming
debut season of Blogchatter A2Z last year with ‘Ancient Cities of India’ (soon to be published as a paperback) my love
for history has been further entrenched, so much that I am trying my hand for
the first time at writing historical fiction and will be presenting to you ‘My
Land Across the Border’, in the Blogchatter A2Z 2019!
‘My Land Across
the Border’, though spread across 26 posts, is a
single story based on true incidents and characters and can be aptly described
as a historical thriller against the backdrop of the 1947 and 1971 events of mass
migration of people from Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan and earlier
undivided Bengal) to India. Through its primary protagonists, the story tries
to bring forth the consequent mental turmoil between their new lives in the new
country and the unforgettable past they have had to leave behind, and the
indelible impact that the history of the land had inflicted on them and their
subsequent generations till date.
I would therefore
request my readers to read ‘My Land Across the Border’, not as
isolated chapters, but as a continuous story. Hope you enjoy my new attempt at
historical fiction. Thank you.
About ‘My
Land Across the Border’
Siraj, a middle-aged
professor of South Asian history at a Canadian university, struggles to get
over his tormented childhood memories as he continuously searches for his own
identity. Like a ghost from the past there are hints of a dark secret in his
family ancestry which haunt him continuously. Siraj takes refuge in the history of Bangladesh,
his motherland, and frantically researches the details in the hope of getting
answers to the questions that torment him; but the secret strongly draws him to
the land of his birth which he has no memory of, in search of his answers and to
meet his final redemption.
Mrinal, on the
other hand, had always lived with the hope of returning to his village in Bangladesh
from where he had had to migrate overnight in his teens. But his wait had
ensued for long sixty years to make that one journey back. As destiny hands him
a chance, he sets off with the apprehensions of a homecoming that he had always
dreamt of but never had had the opportunity of.
All clues and
answers seem to lie hidden in the folds of the history of the land and Siraj
and Mrinal must hunt for themselves if they are to get their answers. Will
their worlds collide as they retrace their respective versions of history in present-day
Bangladesh...? Or will history play truant with them and their quest for their
motherland will remain inconclusive…?
Read ‘My Land
Across the Border’ and be a part of their search into the past.
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My Land Across the Border is now available as an eBook (in pdf format) in the Blogchatter eBook Carnival 2019 and has hence been taken off from my blog.
Free download of the eBook is available for a limited time from the Blogchatter website at the following link:
https://www.theblogchatter.com/download/sayan-bhattacharyas-my-land-across-the-border/
Please download your copy and enjoy reading this historical crime thriller. Do not forget to share your feedback with me...your reviews matter.
Thank you...
