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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780006514091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90912922
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Glass Palace
Author
Amitav Ghosh
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2001
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
380g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Amitav Ghosh
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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