The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates Englandâ‚¬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.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2003-10-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400030897

Country	USA
Brand	Anchor Books
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2003-10-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400030897

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