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Born in calcutta in 1956, amitav ghosh attended school in india and england, conducted fieldwork in tunisia and egypt, and currently lives in new york city, where he teaches. A sweeping story of burma and malaya over a span of one hundred years that has rightly become a modern classic no for the first time in ebook. Apr 01, 2001 praise for the glass palace an absorbing story of a world in transition, brought to life through characters who love and suffer with equal intensity. A vibrant blockbuster of a novel, a london critic described the glass palace as a doctor zhivago for the far east.
The style of the glass palace is elliptical, and at times, uneven. See all 10 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. The glass palace ebook by amitav ghosh 9780375506871. But this lyrical and focused narrative finds its origins in a simpler time. He divides his time between kolkata and goa, india, and brooklyn, new york. 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.
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The glass palace by amitav ghosh overdrive rakuten overdrive. Ghosh dedicates an entire paragraph to describing the camera with which mrs. Coetzee there is no denying ghoshs command of culture and history. Khambatta photographed dolly and rajkumars wedding, yet the actual ceremony takes place, elliptically, when ghosh writes, at the end of the civil ceremony, in the collectors camp office. Amitav ghosh is a popular novelist, journalist, anthropologist and professor whose latest novel, the glass palace, addresses the relationship between india and burma during the british colonial period. There was only one person in the foodstall who knew exactly what that sound was that was rolling in across the plain, along the silver curve of the irrawaddy, to the western wall of mandalays fort. This superb story of love and war begins with the shattering of the kingdom of burma and the igniting of a great and passionate love, and it goes on to tell the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate. Amitav ghoshs novel the glass palace is an epic story that spans multiple generations and a huge portion of south asia, particularly india and burma, both major components of. Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace. Buy the glass palace by amitav ghosh online at alibris. Amitav ghosh was born in calcutta on 11 july 1956 to a bengali hindu family and was educated at the allboys boarding school the doon school in. He is the winner of many of the awards due to his amazing work as well. Amitav ghosh, born july 11, 1956, calcutta now kolkata, india, indianborn writer whose ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of india and southeast asia as a child, ghosh, whose father was a diplomat, lived in india, bangladesh, sri lanka, and iran. This book took ages to read approx 2months, largely due to move etc.
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