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Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of 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, with his Chinese, British and Burmese relations, friends and associates, builds up – from 1870 through the Second World War…

Этот мастерский роман Амитава Гоша, чье действие начинается с британского вторжения в Бирму в 1885 году, повествует об истории Раджкумара, бедного мальчишки, который сделал себе состояние в смутные времена политического хаоса и создал империю по торговле бирманским тиковым деревом. Когда солдаты принуждают королевскую семью покинуть Стеклянный дворец и отправиться в изгнание, Раджкумар знакомится с Долли, юной служанкой при дворе бирманской королевы, чья любовь изменит его судьбу. Он не сможет ее забыть и много лет спустя, разбогатев, отправится на ее поиски. Эпическое повествование, семейная сага о любви и войне с чередой запоминающихся…

A sweeping story of Burma and Malaya over a span of one hundred years that has rightly become a modern classic no for the first time in ebook. From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Sea of Poppies.Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese king, queen and all the court into exile. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the royal family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled.The picture of the tension between the…