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Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth
"An achingly beautiful fictional account of the rise and fall of the Emperor Napoleon."
"There is a poem on every page of Joseph Roth."
"What a marvelous writer! Read him now. You can thank me later."
"A novel of great sensitivity and resonance. The Hundred Days is a meditation on the nature of greatness and love’s dogged loyalty, interwoven with the well-balanced irony that is Roth’s trademark. It’s a sad little gem."
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others. Richard Panchyk has published twenty-three books, including translations of three Joseph Roth novels: The Antichrist, The Hundred Days, and Perlefter.