The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition' J. M. Coetzee 'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The Independent

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 civilisation seems extinguished.

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside he 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...