The Death of Napoleon A Novella

By means of an ingenious escape on an unlikely vessel, Napoleon returns to Europe, experiencing en route bizarre adventures, not least a guided tour of the battlefield of Waterloo in the company of English tourists.Teasing, imaginative and superbly entertaining,The Death of Napoleon is a modern classic. "An elegant and engaging piece of alternative history, gently tragic and wryly comic." D. J . Enright, Times Literary Supplement "His exquisite tale, a gem of a book, can be read as a parable on the folly of hero-worship, the perils of self-justifying notions of destiny and the vanity of all human striving." Publisher's Weekly With a new afterword by the author. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (NSW Premier'sLiterary Awards), The Independent (UK) Foreign Fiction Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Literary Translation