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.
Author: Gurcharan Das
ISBN: 978-0-140-12258-9
Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English