The Diamond
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: October 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780743264815
Subjects: Regent diamond; General; American Historical Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / General; Diamond mines and mining; Collectors and collecting; Diamonds
First sentence: ON OCTOBER 16, 1816, ON THE FOUL ISLAND OF SAINT HELENA, in the middle of precisely nowhere in the South Atlantic Ocean, I watched the emperor's hair being cut.