{"id":1624035,"date":"2026-10-14T00:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/?p=1624035"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:57:39","slug":"the-mulberry-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/the-mulberry-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mulberry Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/39818185.jpg\" alt=\"The Mulberry Empire\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.\u2018The Mulberry Empire\u2019 is a seemingly straightforward historical novel that recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia \u2013 the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty\u2019s Empire, which is followed by the bloody and summary expulsion of the Brits from Kabul following an Afghani insurrection (shades of the Soviet Union\u2019s 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.For those who enjoyed William Dalrymple\u2019s \u2018Return of a King\u2019, \u2018The Mulberry Empire\u2019 is a must-read.<\/p>\n<p>\u0410\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440: Philip  Hensher<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9780007406821<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.litres.ru\/book\/philip-hensher\/the-mulberry-empire-39818185\/?lfrom=477110899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0421\u043a\u0430\u0447\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043a\u043d\u0438\u0433\u0443<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King 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