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The acclaimed author of the calcutta chromosome and the shadow lines has burst out on to the big stage with a major saga on that hidden country, burmarajkumar 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 exiledthe picture of the tension between the burmese, the indian and the british, is excellent among the great range of characters are one of the court ladies, miss dolly, whom he marries: and the redoubtable jonakin, part of the british-educated indian colony, who with her husband has been put in charge of the burmese exiled courtthe 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
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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.
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- PublisherHARPERCOLLINS
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 8172234198
- ISBN 13 9788172234195
- BindingPaperback
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