Gurcharan Das
Fine Family [EPUB ebook]
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This majestic novel by the author of India Unbound is the extraordinary chronicle, rich in passion and incident, of a Punjabi family that is uprooted from its settled existence in Lyallpur by the violence of Partition and forced to flee to India. Everything is lost in the transition, but when a son is born into the family, hopes revive of rebuilding the family’s fortunes, the efforts towards which mirror those of India itself as it struggles to build itself anew.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9789351184270 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2000 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2841086 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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