![]() ![]() There is no denying Ghosh's command of culture and history: whether describing court life in the nineteenth-century Burmese Glass Palace, where servants could approach royalty only on all fours, or limning a political speech by the contemporary Burmese opposition leader, whose laughter confounds her jailers, Ghosh proves a writer of supreme skill and intelligence. ![]() The historical forces that served as the love story's lush background begin to overcome the characters. ![]() Ghosh's narrative cools as he depicts the family's interwoven stories, his fervent opening chapters giving way to a more objective sensibility. They eventually marry and start a family whose fate The Glass Palace carefully chronicles through world wars and imperial decay. It begins in nineteenth-century Burma, where a resourceful Indian street orphan falls in love with a beautiful nursemaid to the Burmese Queen. Amitav Ghosh's fourth novel opens with the sweeping power characteristic of the best historical romances. ![]()
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