by Amitav Ghosh · Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442730360
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«Der Glaspalast» is the historical novel by Amitav Ghosh, published by btb in paperback (624 pages, in German).
In 1885, young Rajkumar witnesses in Mandalay the British invasion, the looting of the royal palace and the exile of the court; among the displaced he sees Dolly, whose memory will mark him. Over time, Rajkumar builds an empire in the teak forests and his story crosses with Dolly's, in a saga spanning Burma, India and Malaysia.
The novel was originally published as The Glass Palace (2000); this German edition is translated by Margarete Längsfeld and Sabine Maier-Längsfeld.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas set during the British colonization of Southeast Asia.
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
