The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh is a sweeping, epic saga of the lives of various members of three generations of an Indian-Burmese family living in India, Burma, and Malaya from the late 1800s through the present day. It is not an arduous read, although the book is quite long. The only part that I felt lagged slightly was the end, which feels a bit drawn-out. While I appreciate that Ghosh wanted to tie up the loose ends for all of his characters, it started to feel a bit exhaustive to get so many details about so many people without much of a narrative to coordinate those details. Nonetheless, this is a really interesting novel that had the added benefit of teaching me something about Burma and its recent history--say from the end of the 1800s through the present day, and especially during WWII--a subject I know very little about. If you enjoy sweeping historical family sagas with large casts of characters and lots of details, this is the book for you.
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