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The Glass Palace (Ghosh Amitav)
The Glass Palace
Autor Ghosh Amitav
Verlag Harper Collins
Co-Verlag The Borough Press (Imprint/Brand)
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
Artikelnummer 3717240
ISBN 978-0-00-651409-1
Ausstattung/Verpackung B-Format Paperback; Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
CHF 19.90
Zusammenfassung
The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition' J. M. Coetzee 'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The Independent

An extraordinary epic 'The Glass Palace' is a masterful novel of love, war and family and presents us with a band of memorable characters, spread across Burma, Malaya and India, and across three generations --before the door to Burma closes behind them, and the glittering light of that civilisation seems extinguished.

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside he 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...

Ghosh Amitav

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.