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Ernesto Ferrero · 2000 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

In 1814 a defeated Napoleon is installed as sovereign of the small island of Elba, and its newly appointed librarian, a sceptic by temperament, keeps a record of the emperor's ten months there. The narrator watches the man reorganise a tiny kingdom while the legend and the person refuse to fit together. A Strega-winning novel that approaches the Napoleonic myth through a minor witness.

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