Rent The Glass Palace

Synopsis

Ambitious, multigenerational, THE GLASS PALACE is a saga akin to a 19th-century Russian novel....[It] is crammed full of historical minutiae, as if the scholarly nonfiction writer in Ghosh could not resist squeezing in yet another detail....These nearly textbook descriptions sometimes detract from the flow of the story. Still, there is something irresistible about the novel's ambition and how thoroughly it dissects the impact of the British colonial enterprise. THE GLASS PALACE, like its far-ranging subject, is capacious; it reflects the author's own curiosity and hunger for understanding.

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