The Glass Palace
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: February 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780375758775
First sentence: There was only one person in the food-stall who knew exactly what that sound was that was rolling in across the plain, along the silver curve of the Irrawaddy, to the western wall of Mandalay's fort.