The Mulberry Empire: The Mulberry Empire: A Novel

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/14/2003
ISBN: 9781400030897
Pages: 498
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.05d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/02/2003 pg. 32