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THE MULBERRY EMPIRE
by
PHILIP HENSHER
Książka używana, w języku angielskim
Stan książki: db+++
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 538
Rok wydania: 2003
Helen Dunmore, The Times
Great figures seen in close-up, and a subtle, sensuous intimacy with the fabric of these long-gone lives. The effect is exhilarating.
Ahdaf Soueif, The Guardian
A delightful entertainment, a timely social and political commentary, and a highly literary and ambitious novel.
Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph
Prepare to be dazzled... it is executed with flair, confidence and great energy – a really terrific read and a hell of an achievement.
Daily Telegraph
‘Prepare to be dazzled... a really terrific read and one hell of an achievement.’
Daily Mail
‘Loaded with exotic local detail, from London to Calcutta, St Petersburg to Kabul… Irresistible.'
Independent on Sunday
'A huge, perhaps unique achievement...deeply human, gorgeous, glittering and never dull.'
The Scotsman
'Exuberant, overflowing with life, highly-coloured, entrancing: a novel to lose yourself in.'
The breakthrough novel from one of Britain's most brilliant critics. 'The Mulberry Empire' is a seemingly straightforward historical novel that recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia -- the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty's Empire, which is followed by the bloody and summary expulsion of the Brits from Kabul following an Afghani insurrection (shades of the Soviet Union's final imperial fling in the very same country in the 1980s). The novel has at its heart the encounter between West and East as embodied in the likeable, complex relationship between Alexander Burnes, leader of the initial British expeditionary party, and the wily, cultured Afghani ruler, the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan.
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