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giveaway: The Mulberry Empire

mulberryempireThe Mulberry Empire

by Philip Hensher

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“In the spring of 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan with “the full pomp of the empire,” possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally, the King of the Punjab. Three years later, a single British horseman rode out of the Afghan mountains into India – the sole survivor of the original vast contingent. The Mulberry Empire is the magnificently told story of this conflict – of the events that surrounded it, of the politics and people on both sides, of the passions and pride that led to the destruction of the British and the triumph of the Afghans.

At the center: Alexander Burnes – a British explorer who ventures into the fabled city of Kabul, befriends the all-powerful Amir, and returns to England a hero. The bearer of amazing stories, he is unwitting emissary to and from both nations, neither of which can see how his impressions will change their worlds. And there is Bella Garraway, whose upper-class, predictable life will be wholly undone – leaving her with nothing, and then everything – when her path crosses Burnes’s. Around them, a superbly wrought cast of characters: English, Russian, Indian, Afghan, Persian – a shifting universe of men and women, the powerful and the pawns, caught in a vertex of history.

Spanning a decade and moving between London and Calcutta, St. Petersburg and Kabul, The Mulberry Empire is a brilliant synthesis of fact and imagination, as rich in the details of history and place as it is in the complexities and drama of human nature. It is an expectedly timely, masterful novel of fidelity and dreams, belief and chance, an epic of empires built and lost, and built again.”

Giveaway Info: 1 hardcover copy. Open to all. Ends November 22, 2009.

43 Comments

  1. This looks fascinating – I love Asian history…

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  2. Katy says:

    This sounds really interesting. :)

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  4. Aarti says:

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  5. Marg says:

    Pick me! My email is in my profile.

  6. Valorie says:

    I’d love to win!

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  8. mariag says:

    I would love to win this one.

  9. Ani d'Onfrio says:

    Would love to add this to my book collection. Please count me in.

  10. Wanda says:

    I would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks!

  11. This is a truly amazing book that vividly brought to life the period of the First Afghan War. I could not help but notice the cockiness of the British–their certainty that they would defeat the less technologically advanced Afghans–and how rudely this is shattered by the Afghan Amir’s son, who harasses the British survivors as they flee to India. Afghanistan is not an easy country to conquer and hold–ask the Mughals!

  12. Ruby says:

    Please enter me, i’d love to read this historical fiction book! :)

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  13. Mystica says:

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  14. Lara says:

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  15. Tea says:

    I love to read THE MULBERRY EMPIRE.

  16. Tea says:

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  17. Sandra K321 says:

    I would like to be entered into your drawing for this book. I enjoy historical and historical fiction works.

  18. Amanda says:

    O wow! This is going on my TBR wish list. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  19. Teresa W. says:

    Sounds good, I’d like to be included!

  20. Jenny says:

    This is an aspect of history I have never read about. I’d like to be entered to win!

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  21. zibilee says:

    Sounds like a very interesting read, I’d love the chance to be entered in the giveaway! Thanks for making it available!

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  22. Sue says:

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  23. karen k says:

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  25. Wanda says:

    I would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks.

  26. Fiona Robyn says:

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  27. Heather S says:

    This looks like a great book, I would la la LOVE to win! xo

  28. Strangelove says:

    That first paragraph is absolutely captivating!
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  29. Maria D says:

    Do count me in, please!
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  30. melanie says:

    I’d love to read some of the backstory to what’s going on in Afghanistan — thanks!

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  31. Beth says:

    This looks great! Please enter me!

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  32. Edu Chico says:

    Oh, another great giveaway!
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  33. Jafantunes says:

    Fantastic!
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  34. Cavalier says:

    Oh, goody!

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  35. Evelyn says:

    Sounds good! Please enter me!

  36. Aik says:

    I’d love to read this book! Thanks!

  37. Tokemise says:

    This looks like a very unique read. I’d like to enter. Thanks
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  38. Belinda M says:

    sounds like a good book. Please include me in your giveaway

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  39. Caty says:

    Anothe good one!
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  40. Susy says:

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  41. Mil says:

    One more trying his luck!

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  42. J Dias says:

    Thanks for this chance!
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  43. Tanita says:

    Good luck everyone!
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