The Mulberry Empire by Hensher, Philip

The Mulberry Empire: The Mulberry Empire: A Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400030897)

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The Mulberry Empire by Hensher, Philip

The Mulberry Empire: The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

$18.00
The Mulberry Empire by Hensher, Philip

The Mulberry Empire: The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Philip Hensher
ISBN-10: 1400030897
ISBN-13: 9781400030897
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2003
Pages: 498
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/02/2003 pg. 32
By Philip Hensher
By Philip Hensher
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Philip Hensher is a critic and the author of five works of fiction, including Kitchen Venom, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists for 2003 and a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for The Mulberry Empire, he is a columnist for The Independent and chief book reviewer for The Spectator. He lives in South London.

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