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Occur Burma throughout the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, an undesirable boy lifted on the tides of political and social mayhem, who moves on to produce an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When troopers drive the royal family from the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a lady in the courtroom of the Burmese King, whose love can shape his life. He can't overlook her, and later, as a rich man, he gets into search of her years. The challenges which have created Burma, India, and Malaya the locations they're today are lit in this fantastic book from the author Chitra Divakaruni calls “a grasp storyteller.”