The Glass Palace
The Glass Palace begins with the shattering of the kingdom of Burma, and tells the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate. It traces the life of Rajkumar, a poor Indian boy, who is lifted on the tides of political and social turmoil to build an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When British soldiers force the royal family out of the glass palace, during the invasion of 1885, he falls in love with Dolly, an attendant at the palace. Years later, unable to forget her, Rajkumar goes in search of his love. Through this brilliant and impassioned story of love and war, Amitav Ghosh presents a ruthless appraisal of the horrors of colonialism and capitalist exploitation.
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 and he grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ghosh studied at The Doon School in Dehradun and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. Works : The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire, Gun Island, Jungle Nama, The Living Mountain, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma, Countdown, The Imam and the Indian, Incendiary Circumstances, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Uncanny and Improbable Events etc.