by Amitav Ghosh · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788172234195
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«The Glass Palace» is the historical novel by Amitav Ghosh, published by HarperCollins in paperback (560 pages, in English).
In 1885, the British army invades Burma and the royal family abandons the Glass Palace. Rajkumar, a boy from the market, meets Dolly, a young woman of the court; years later, now a wealthy teak merchant, he sets out to find her. The multigenerational plot unfolds across Burma, India and Malaysia up to the Second World War.
The novel was originally published in 2000; the present HarperCollins edition dates from January 2006.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, especially those interested in the colonial history of Southeast Asia.
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
