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The Emperor and the Poet
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
History remembers Dom Pedro II as an emperor and Victor Hugo as a monument of literature. This novel searches for the men behind those images.
In 1877, the Brazilian emperor arrives unannounced at Victor Hugo's home on the rue de Clichy in Paris. One is a monarch who would rather travel as Pedro de Alcântara, carrying books, dictionaries, and a private diary. The other is the great republican poet of France, a man shaped by exile, political struggle, and the conviction that literature can outlive power.
Watching from the margins is Mercês, the fictional narrator who has spent her life preserving what official history rarely records: the weariness after ceremonies, the silences between words, the weight of a suitcase, and the private gestures through which public figures briefly become human.
Moving from the United States Centennial Exhibition and the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to imperial Brazil, nineteenth-century Paris, abolition, exile, and the final days of Dom Pedro II, The Emperor and the Poet is a literary historical novel about power, friendship, dignity, memory, and what remains of a person after history has turned him into a monument.
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