The Glass Palace

Ghosh, Amitav

ISBN 10: 0002261022 / ISBN 13: 9780002261029

Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2000

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Glass Palace
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002261022
• ISBN 13: 9780002261029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 0th Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.9 pounds

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied at the Doon School; St. Stephens College; Delhi University; Oxford University; and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alexandria. His first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned his doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel.
In February 2004 Amitav Ghosh was appointed Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Harvard University. He is married with two children and lives in New York.