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The Glass Palace

2023-03-31 17:01:38

"The current time and past time may appear in the future, the past past is included in the past, if all the time is always there, all the time can not be reversed" (1-5) "It can conquer only after the passage of time" (92) (TS Eliot. "Four Quartets") Literature is a mirror of society and reflects the social, political and economic situation of society I will. Various genres represent the events at various points in time and the influence they have on society.

1) Amitav Ghosh's Glass Palace - Glass Palace was written by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh and published in 2000. The novel is a historical novel that won the title of "Best Book" and received many awards. It is a wonderful work of the author. Indeed, this novel has also been published in several other languages. Talking about the story, Amitav Ghosh wrote this book, building a wide range of problems, social changes, and economic instability. This book is the story of Rajkumar, the main character and his love, Dolly. In addition to drawing the story of love, the novel shows not only the struggle and problems faced by Rajkumar in order to satisfy his love It is also the social and economic problems that occurred when he began to build his own empire It represents political turmoil. This novel focuses on the aftermath of the Second World War, people's lives are broken, and how do they combine them?

I read the Ibis trilogy in front of the Grass Palace. Now I am considering the glass palace as a magnificent preparation for the next giant. From 1885 to 1996, the novel covered the three interrelated parts of the British Empire covering the majority of the history - Myanmar, Malaya and India. But since he had to do this in the novel - even if it was a real novel - Amitav Ghosh had to hurry in the past, he stopped and tripled You saw carefully. In order to save money, he homogenized the three countries he was dealing with. The only difference that stands out is the way they call the same tree with a different name. Ghosh solves this problem by its role.