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A review by scribal8
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
5.0
This a long book full of history and the family saga becomes somewhat strained and contrived at the end. But it's a literary scholarly book not genre fiction ( I read both happily but I don't review them the same way).
My dad uses to work upcountry in Burma near some of the sites in this book. I' ve always been at a loss to describe to others the tragedy of how this rich land was reduced to such poverty. I understood much of the history, but Ghosh fleshes it out and adds the dimension of a post colonial sensibility so beautifully that I cannot recommend it enough.
My dad uses to work upcountry in Burma near some of the sites in this book. I' ve always been at a loss to describe to others the tragedy of how this rich land was reduced to such poverty. I understood much of the history, but Ghosh fleshes it out and adds the dimension of a post colonial sensibility so beautifully that I cannot recommend it enough.