{"product_id":"9780006514091","title":"The Glass Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Ghosh, Amitav, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/06\/2001,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 560 pages, maps,\u003cbr\u003e Series: 20th Century Architects, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Historical fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006514091\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRajkumar 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 the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 1870 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022700085401,"sku":"9780006514091","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780006514091.jpg?v=1602536835","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780006514091","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}