The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency & King of the Badgers. ` The Mulberry Empire` recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia
- the courtship, betrayal & invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty`s Empire, which is followed by the bloody & summary expulsion of the British from Kabul following an Afghani insurrection. At its heart the encounter between West & East, as embodied in the likeable, complex relationship between Alexander Burnes, leader of the initial British expeditionary party, & the wily, cultured Afghani ruler, the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan. For those who enjoyed William Dalrymple`s ` Return of a King`, ` The Mulberry Empire` is a must-read.