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This novel begins with the startling assumption that Napoleon is not dead.

Nel 1629, al largo della costa orientale dell'Australia, s'incaglia una nave della Compagnia olandese delle Indie. A bordo ci sono oltre 300 fra uomini, donne e bambini e un ricco, ricchissimo carico. Dopo aver fatto sbarcare i sopravvissuti sugli isolotti vicini, un tale Jeronimus Cornelisz assume il comando e organizza la piccola comunità derelitta. Man mano che passano i giorni, l'uomo si rivelerà un despota violento, un assassino e uno stu...

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Simon Leys, novelist, unflinching cultural and political commentator, Sinologist, and occasional illustrator, presents here timely meditations on the experience and hazards of literary translation. Preceding his essay are observations on everything from demented tyrants to musical geniuses who gain insights from vacuum cleaners. Leys is rightly renowned for his wisdom, his insight, and his linguistic and literary expertise.

An illuminating compendium of essays from a brilliant and quirky writer and global voice.

As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeffer had nicknamed him Napoleon. And so, for convenience, that is what we shall call him. Besides, he was Napoleon. . . . Napoleon has escaped from St. Helena, leaving a double behind him. Now disguised as the cabin hand Eugène Lenormand and enduring the mockery of the crew (Na­po­leon, they laughingly nickname the pudgy, hopelessly clumsy little ma...

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In this riveting account of the shipwreck of the Batavia, Simon Leys travels to the site of the disaster to evoke the brutality and tragedy of the bloody island massacre that befell the ship's survivors.

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