This Event is for Asia Society Members only. Recommended additional reading: Amitav Ghosh's personal blog. Reviews: Read Pankaj Mishra's New York Times review here. The story follows the fortunes – rubber estates in Malaya, businesses in Singapore, estates in Burma – which Rajkumar, with his Chinese, British and Burmese relations, friends and associates, builds up – from 1870 through the Second World War to the scattering of the extended family to New York and Thailand, London and Hong Kong in the post-war years. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile. The novel first published in 2000 for which Ghosh refused to accept the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. This time we will read The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh. This meeting has been held on June 16, 2021.
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