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jaskaransingh 's review for:
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Reading History sometimes becomes hard for us to understand things but if we read it in a fictional way it turns out that we can remember the things that we could not by reading it in the from of textbook. History remains as real as the events happened in the past but it takes form in the way of fiction or a story which is imagined...
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Amitav Ghosh is my most most and most favourite Author and I found it when I read his another book Sea of Poppies in the very beginning of this year which is the first book in Ibis Trilogy. As I told earlier that his books are the kind of thing I look forward to... they beckon me and I have even marked the chapters and paragraphs that I read time to time in particular mood levels. It's his talent that he starts his book with different characters and stories and how amazingly their stories entwined with each other and at the end these tales become the part of one major story.
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This book The Glass Palace is a historical fiction which tells us about the Last King of Burma... King Thebaw, and his wife Queen Supayalat who are forced into exiled from their Burmese Palace by the British to the obscure town called Ratnagiri, India. It tells us how they live there and there is another story of Rajkumar, the main character of this book, who involves himself in teak industry and from a poor man becomes one of the richest people in Burma and in old age lose everything he owns because of the trouble due to The Second World War. It's a story of a Royal Family in exile and of Rajkumar's life. There is a huge coverage of different things like Indian National Movements, Castism, Military, teak industry, rubber industry, Colonialism, British Indian Army and many more things and the book takes place in some places of India and many more places of Burma(now called Myanmar, Malaya(now Malaysia), Siam(now Thailand), Singapore and a few other countries from 1885 to nearly 1995.
Loved it...this is definitely a must read..
Thank you 😊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
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Amitav Ghosh is my most most and most favourite Author and I found it when I read his another book Sea of Poppies in the very beginning of this year which is the first book in Ibis Trilogy. As I told earlier that his books are the kind of thing I look forward to... they beckon me and I have even marked the chapters and paragraphs that I read time to time in particular mood levels. It's his talent that he starts his book with different characters and stories and how amazingly their stories entwined with each other and at the end these tales become the part of one major story.
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This book The Glass Palace is a historical fiction which tells us about the Last King of Burma... King Thebaw, and his wife Queen Supayalat who are forced into exiled from their Burmese Palace by the British to the obscure town called Ratnagiri, India. It tells us how they live there and there is another story of Rajkumar, the main character of this book, who involves himself in teak industry and from a poor man becomes one of the richest people in Burma and in old age lose everything he owns because of the trouble due to The Second World War. It's a story of a Royal Family in exile and of Rajkumar's life. There is a huge coverage of different things like Indian National Movements, Castism, Military, teak industry, rubber industry, Colonialism, British Indian Army and many more things and the book takes place in some places of India and many more places of Burma(now called Myanmar, Malaya(now Malaysia), Siam(now Thailand), Singapore and a few other countries from 1885 to nearly 1995.
Loved it...this is definitely a must read..
Thank you 😊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️