The Glass PalaceThe International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition JM Coetzee 'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The Independent 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