The Glass Palace gave me an intimate peek into a portion of its history through its faithful portrayal. However, my understanding of Burma’s past is quite limited. Through reading the glossy pages of encyclopedias, I have become familiar with the Shwe Dagon Pagoda and the magical city of Bagan. It was only in 2018 that I was able to read the book when I subconsciously begun my April 2018 Asian literature month.īefore reading the book, Burma’s history, for me, was just once defined by the military junta that taunted the entire country for nearly half a century. Finding out that it was a historical novel that is right on my alley, I returned to the bookstore to purchase it.
However, it kept haunting me until the next day so I researched on it. When I first came across Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh, I was a bit apprehensive about purchasing the book even though its title and cover fascinated me. An extraordinary epic, THE GLASS PALACE is a masterful novel of love, war and family and presents us with a band of memorable characters, spread across Burma, Malaya and India, and across three generations – before the door to Burma closes behind them, and the glittering light of that civilization seems extinguished.
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