The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England's tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre.

At the center of The Mulberry Empire is Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir. But he is only one character in a cast that includes ladies and generals, princes and deserters, all brilliantly and sympathetically realized. At once stirring and harrowing, exotic and cautionary, and as vividly colored as a Persian miniature, the result is a tour de force of re-creation and invention.

Philip Hensher is an Independent journalist, a Spectator arts critic, and one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. He has published eight novels and one collection of short stories, including The Mulberry Empire, King of the Badgers, and The Northern Clemency, which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He splits his time between South London and Geneva.

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ISBN 13	9781400030897
ISBN 10	1400030897
Title	The Mulberry Empire
Author	Philip Hensher
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-10-14
Number of pages	496
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