Lead Review

• Book: The Glass Palace
• Location: Burma (Myanmar), India, Malaysia (Malaya)
• Author: Amitav Ghosh

Full of the colors, scents, and sounds of exotic Burma in the 1860’s, this novel comes to life within the Glass Palace of the royal family and in the streets of Mandalay in the final days before the British arrive to colonize….The action, especially during the World War II invasion of Malaya by the Japanese, is vivid and exciting, as people try to flee the shooting in Malaya but find roads closed to Burma and Siam.(Mary Whipple)

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