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2 unusual facts about The Glass Palace


The Glass Palace

It was also translated into Burmese by writer Nay Win Myint and published serialized at one of Burma's leading literary magazines Shwe Amyutay.

The novel starts with a teenage boy called Rajkumar running through the city of Mandalay to find a woman called Ma Cho.


Amitav Ghosh

Ghosh is the author of The Circle of Reason (his 1986 debut novel), The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004), and Sea of Poppies (2008), the first volume of The Ibis trilogy, set in the 1830s, just before the Opium War, which encapsulates the colonial history of the East.


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