The Hundred Days

Far from glorious, Napoleon's hundred days are a period of defeat and retreat, beginning with the Emperor's flight from Elba and running up to his defeat at Waterloo. In Roth's conjuring, we see the disgruntled and distracted figure mostly through the eyes of his laundress in Paris. Working at the Tuileries palace, Angelina Pietri is a shy devotee of the great man, aware of his hubris but sympathe...