The Glass Palace - Hardcover

Ghosh, Amitav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670896594 ISBN 13: 9780670896592

Publisher: Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Group (Canada), 2000

Synopsis

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls “a master storyteller.”

“I will never forget the young and old Rajkumar, Dolly, the Princesses, the forests of teak, the wealth that made families and wars. A wonderful novel. An incredible story.” ―Grace Paley

“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland―a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun never set on the British Empire.” ―Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A novelist of dazzling ingenuity.” ―San Francisco Chronicle

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From the Inside Flap

Brilliant and impassioned, The Glass Palace is a masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh, the gifted novelist Peter Matthiessen has called an exceptional writer. This superb story of love and war begins with the shattering of the kingdom of Burma and the igniting of a great and passionate love, and it goes on to tell the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate.

The Glass Palace tells of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.

From the Back Cover

"A distinctive voice, polished and profound."

About this edition

• Publisher: Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Group (Canada)
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0670896594
• ISBN 13: 9780670896592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560