TY - BOOK AU - Bhattacharyya,Birendra Kumar AU - Phukan,Mitra (tr) TI - BLOSSOMS IN THE GRAVEYARD SN - 9789385285479 U1 - F PY - 2016////01/01 CY - New Delhi PB - Niyogi Books KW - Fiction KW - Translated from Assamese N1 - Blossoms in the Graveyard is the story of Mehr, a young girl from a village in what is at that time, East Pakistan. It is the story of her journey from dependence to self-reliance, both emotionally and physically. Parallel to her story, is the narrative of a land that is struggling to assert its identity and moving towards a hard-won Independence in a crucible of blood and tears. Mehr is the symbol of the land. Her suffering, her distress, her tortured anguish, is an emblem of its agony, in particular of the women of the country, as it is being birthed. ER -