Full name: The Glass Palace: A Novel

Author: Amitav Ghosh Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction Cultures: India, Asia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780375758775 0375758771

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls "a master storyteller." Similar books: The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott The Day of the Scorpion by Paul Scott The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott Bhowani Junction by John Masters Mandala by Pearl S. Buck Raj by Gita Mehta Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie One Last Look by Susanna Moore