The Glass Palace
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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition’ JM Coetzee 'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The Independent Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled. The story follows the fortunes – rubber estates in Malaya, businesses in Singapore, estates in Burma – which Rajkumar, with his Chinese, British and Burmese relations, friends and associates, builds up – from 1870 through the Second World War to the scattering of the extended family to New York and Thailand, London and Hong Kong in the post-war years.‘A tantalising meditation… richly complex and satisfying’
Sunday Times
‘A distinctive voice, polished and profound’
TLS
The author was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and northern India. Educated in India and Britain, he now lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002261029 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002261022 |
| Title | The Glass Palace |
| Author | Amitav Ghosh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Eurasia 2001 |
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