The Glass Palace Ghosh Amitav (2024)

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this epic novel follows Rajkumar, a poor boy swept into a world of social and political chaos who builds an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman from the Burmese Queens court, whose love shapes his life. Years later, now a rich man, he sets out to find her. Spanning three generations and reaching from Burma to Malaya and India, this extraordinary story explores love, war and family. This edition includes an introduction by Neel Mukherjee.