Translation of Kauffmann Masterpiece

Published by the small New York press Four Walls Eight Windows and translated by the award-winning literary translator Patricia Clancy, The Black Room at Longwood is at last a chance for anglophone readers to enjoy Kauffmann’s elegiac masterpiece. Retelling as it does the story of Napoleon’s captivity on Saint Helena, the book is also the author’s attempt to exorcise the ghosts of his own past – when a journalist for a French nedwspaper in Beirut, he was captured in 1985 and held by Shiite terrorists for three years, often blindfolded. Reviews of the book can be read on the web page. http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com/bookkauffmann1.html The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena (Translated by Patricia Clancy)