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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
A historical novel spread over three generations and scattered across three main locations - Burma, the "golden land", India and Malaya. The novel starts with the exile of Burmese King Thebaw to Ratnagiri on the west coast of India. However, the protagonist of the novel is Rajkumar, an Indian boy of eleven, who is besotted by Dolly, one of Queen Supayalat's young attendants. Dolly follows the royal family to exile, but Rajkumar cannot quite get her face out of his head. Over the years, helped by his mentor Saya John, Rajkumar constructs a flourishing timber business in Rangoon. Then he turns westward in search of Dolly. He eventually finds her. The book tells their story, set amidst the ravages of the two world wars and ending with the promise of better times to come.