Translated for the first time from Bengali, this astonishingly radical novel is
about Chhobi, a gutsy, misfit girl from a rural landowning family. Chhobi
questions injustice, fights to share the privileges offered to her brother and
male cousins, and refuses to see her future as just another submissive household
drudge. Nabankur means a new seedling, which is personified by Chhobi, who is
growing up in late 1930s and the early 1940s in Bengal, where anti-colonial
struggles against British rule are in full swing. As her political awakening
gains maturity, thoughts of personal freedom fill her heart.
About The Author:
Sulekha Sanyal was born in 1928 in an