by Amitav Ghosh
‘The glass palace’, the title of the book which is as ambiguous as it gets, for not divulging anything about the book but in itself is a beautiful title to have . But just to be clear the title refers to the Burmese royal palace and this book is all about Burma and its struggle which makes her wh...
Set in Burma, India and Malaya in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this epic story of a three generations bound by ties of family, business and friendship begins in 1885 in Mandalay with the overthrow of the last Burmese king by the British and ends in 1996 with an address by the Burmese pro-...
Worth reading !!!!!
Ghosh is a masterful, powerful writer. His decriptions are some of the best...in fact they often substitute for dialogue and action. With a lesser skilled author, it would have ended up poorly. All I wanted was his lush description! However, by the end of the book, it did start to feel a bit burdens...
During my pre-vegetarian days, I used to find solace in a warm, juicy scrumptious steak n’ cheese sandwich washed down by a chilled Heineken. Especially, if the gooey cheese was a blend of Munster, Monterey jack and yellow cheddar; the bread not too soggy but aptly moisten by the beef gravy. It is p...
A sprawling novel of Burma and India, encompassing multiple generations. It is less about character than it is about telling history at the level of the character. This can decrease identification, but allows the reader to attend to big currents and patterns. The audiobook was well-narrated.
Yes. This is why I read historical fiction. Amitav Ghosh devoted five years of his life to the travel, research, and writing required to tell this story. It follows the mingled fates of three families and three countries--Burma, India, and Malaya, from 1885 through the mid-1990s. The story begins ...
I feel a strange kind of connection to this book. My dad is originally from Burma and his father, though Irish worked in the timber trade in the jungles with all the elephants. He died in 1934 so he'd have been around in the early 19th C.I like Ghosh's style of writing - I find it compelling somehow...
Set in Burma, this is a treat of a tale.
What the blurb led me to expect: A book about Burma in the late 19th century, starring a boy/young man named Rajkumar.What the book actually is: An epic family saga beginning in 1885 and ending in 1996, set in Burma/Myanmar, India, and Malaysia, starring a whole bunch of people.Fortunately, I like e...
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