The Glass Palace - Couverture souple

Ghosh, Amitav

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0008683549 ISBN 13 : 9780008683542

Editeur : The Borough Press, 2024

Synopsis

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE

The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author

'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial Times

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of social and political 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.

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, an unforgettable story of love, war and family. Spanning three generations, in Burma, Malaya and India, The Glass Palace is an extraordinary epic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A new edition with an introduction by neel Mukherjee.

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

The story follows the fortunes - rubber estates in Malaya, businesses in Singapore, estates in Burma - which Rajkumar, with his Chinese, British and Burmese relations, friends and associates, builds up - from 1870 through the Second World War to the scattering of the extended family to New York and Thailand, London and Hong Kong in the post-war years.

The international bestseller from the Booker Prize shortlisted author.

'An absorbing story of a world in transition' JM COETZEE

'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The Independent

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Borough Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• ISBN 10: 0008683549
• ISBN 13: 9780008683542
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible