Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg
Brand: She Writes Press Inc
Product Description
Beautiful and poignant. Allison Pataki NY Times bestselling author of The Queens Fortune Moving compassion humor and wit. Sandra Gulland author of The Josephine B. Trilogy With its delightful adaptation of Napoleon Bonapartes real attempt to write a novel Finding Napoleon offers a fresh take on Europes most powerful man after hes lost everything. A forgotten woman of historythe audacious Albine de Montholonnarrates their tale of intrigue love and betrayal. After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic he and his lover Albine de Montholon plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together African slaves British sympathizers a Jewish merchant a Corsican rogue and French followers they confront British oppositionas well as treachery within their own rankswith sometimes subtle sometimes bold but always desperate action. When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another ambition and Albines husband threaten their reconciliation. To survive Albine must decide whom to betray. To succeed Napoleon must learn whom to trust. Two hundred years after Napoleons death this elegant richly researched novel reveals the man history conceals. show more
Condition : New
Author : Margaret Rodenberg
Weight : 617.59
Publisher : She Writes Press Inc
Language : English
EAN : 9781647420161
ISBN10 : 1647420164
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20201119
Place of Publication : Berkeley United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 139.7 X 213.36 X 33.02mm