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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. He Is Rescued By A Far-Seeing Chinese Merchant And With Him Builds Up A Logging Business In Upper Burma. But Haunted By His Vision Of The Royal Family, Rajkumar Journeys To The Obscure Town In India Where They Have Been Exiled.The Picture Of The Tension Between The Burmese, The Indian And The British Is Excellent. Among The Great Range Of Characters Are One Of The Court Ladies, Miss Dolly, Whom Rajkumar Marries: And The Redoubtable Jonakin, Part Of The British-Educated Indian Colony, Who, With Her Husband, Has Been Put In Charge Of The Burmese Exiled Court.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 187 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.
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Author
Amitav Ghosh
Publisher
Harper Collins
Number of Pages
560
Language
English
SKU
BK0421780
ISBN
9780008279486
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
13.5 x 3.5 x 21.6 cm
Binding
Paperback
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Amitav Ghosh (Born 11 July 1956), Is A Bengali Indian Author Best Known For His Work In English Fiction. Bio From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Photo By David Shankbone (Own Work) [Gfdl (Http://Www.Gnu.Org/Copyleft/Fdl.Html) Or Cc-By-Sa-3.0 (Http://Creativecommons.Org/Licenses/By-Sa/3.0/)], Via Wikimedia Commons. Amitav Ghosh Was Born In Calcutta In 1956 And Raised And Educated In Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India And The United Kingdom, Where He Received His Ph.D. In Social Anthropology From Oxford. Acclaimed For Fiction, Travel Writing And Journalism, His Books Include The Circle Of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land And Dancing In Cambodia. His Previous Novel, The Glass Palace, Was An International Bestseller That Sold More Than A Half-Million Copies In Britain. Recently Published There, The Hungry Tide Has Been Sold For Translation In Twelve Foreign Countries And Is Also A Bestseller Abroad. Ghosh Has Won France'S Prix Medici Etranger, India'S Prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, The Arthur C. Clarke Award And The Pushcart Prize. He Now Divides His Time Between Harvard University, Where He Is A Visiting Professor And His Homes In India And Brooklyn, New York. Amitav Ghosh Is An Award-Winning Novelist And Essayist. His Most Recent Book Is The Great Derangement. Amitav Ghosh Is The Author Of Ten Highly Acclaimed Works Of Fiction And Non-Fiction Which Include The Booker Prize Shortlisted Sea Of Poppies (Book One Of The Ibis Trilogy), River Of Smoke, The Glass Palace And The Shadow Lines. He Has Won Numerous Prizes, Some Of Which Are The Sahitya Akademi Award, The Pushcart Prize And The Grinzane Cavour Prize. He Divides His Time Between New York And India.