Download or read book A Fine Family written by Gurcharan Das and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.