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The glass palace

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Utgitt:
RNIB, 2009
Lengde:
24 t. 27 min.
Sjanger:
Historisk
Passer for:
Voksne
Språk:
Engelsk
Innleser:
Steve Hodson
Boknummer:
615634
Rajkumar is a boy when the British force the Burmese royal family into exile. He is rescued by a Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business. But haunted by the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled. The story follows the fortunes - rubber estates in Malaya, businesses in Singapore, estates in Burma - which Rajkumar builds up - from 1870 through the Second World War to the scattering of the extended family to New York and Thailand, London and Hong Kong in the post-war years.