The Glass Palace

ISBN-13: 9780006514091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 560 str.

Amitav Ghosh

Opis

Rajkumar helps on a market stall outside the royal palace when the British force the royal family into exile. Rescued by a Chinese merchant they move to upper Burma but he is haunted by his vision of the royal family and journeys to find them.

Recenzje

'A distinctive voice, polished and profound.' TLS

'Ambitious, multigenerational, "The Glass Palace" is akin to a 19th-century Russian novel...a rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland.' LA Times

'An absorbing story of a world in transition, brought to life through characters who love and suffer with equal intensity.' J.M. Coetzee

'A "Doctor Zhivago" for the Far East.' Independent

O autorze

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.