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News of his arrival soon reaches the amir, for whom the arrival of the new european in town was like the dropping of a rock into the opaque pool of water which was the city, ruffling the surface immediately in ordinary and predictable ways, but disturbing the substance. Sep 01, 2002 the mulberry empire by philip hensher. With tolstoyan sweep and dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates englands 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. The bestselling novel from the man booker prize shortlisted author of the northern clemency and king of the badgers. The first afghan war of 1839 the english tried and failed to displace a potentate unfriendly to its colonial ambitions is the subject of this fascinating us debut.
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