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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
Every artist has a work that can easily be called his masterpiece - be it Vincent Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Guernica, Camille Claudel's The Waltz or Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
The Glass Palace, in parts and as a whole, is Amitav Ghosh's masterpiece. It is everything that defines Ghosh's narrative style, narration and literary pursuits. This is what an epic should be. This is how a historical fiction should be written. Spanning 5 generation starting from King Thebaw's (of Burma) exile to Aung Suu Kyi's endeavors - covering India's struggle for independence, fortunes earned and lost in Teak and Rubber businesses, sparkles of love and melancholy of loss, family bonds and borders, conflict between one's duties and responsibilities, rainbow of vibrant emotions - hope, despair, anger, jealousy, pity, fear - Ghosh completely imbibes the history and pours out a magnificent and honest narration of the same.
This book is as much a praise of everything that is human as it is an eulogy to the bygone era.
The Glass Palace, in parts and as a whole, is Amitav Ghosh's masterpiece. It is everything that defines Ghosh's narrative style, narration and literary pursuits. This is what an epic should be. This is how a historical fiction should be written. Spanning 5 generation starting from King Thebaw's (of Burma) exile to Aung Suu Kyi's endeavors - covering India's struggle for independence, fortunes earned and lost in Teak and Rubber businesses, sparkles of love and melancholy of loss, family bonds and borders, conflict between one's duties and responsibilities, rainbow of vibrant emotions - hope, despair, anger, jealousy, pity, fear - Ghosh completely imbibes the history and pours out a magnificent and honest narration of the same.
This book is as much a praise of everything that is human as it is an eulogy to the bygone era.