The Prague Cemetery: Umberto Eco - Softcover

Eco, Umberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099555980 ISBN 13: 9780099555988

Publisher: Vintage, 2012

Synopsis

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres.

But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, lay just one man?

About this title

Review:

"An extremely readable narrative of betrayal, terrorism, murder...chilling" (Daily Telegraph)

"A smartly entertaining fin-de-siècle romp" (Independent)

"Imagine Dan Brown adorned with a PhD: that's Umberto Eco" (Observer)

"This feels like Eco's most accessible novel since The Name of the Rose, a temptingly complex tale of 19th-century plots and conspiracies, and of an evil genius who may be behind them all" (Sunday Times)

"The Prague Cemetery, snakes along an underground trail that twists through the enlightened heresies and bigoted gospels respectively propagated by Freemasons and Illuminati, Jesuits and Jew-baiters, before hinting at an ideological conspiracy that underlines the deceits of contemporary politics" (Observer)

From the Author:

Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books, and certainly one of the finest authors of the twentieth century. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative inventions. His perceptive essays on modern culture are filled with a delightful sense of humor and irony, and his ideas on semiotics, interpretation, and aesthetics have established his reputation as one of academia’s foremost thinkers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099555980
• ISBN 13: 9780099555988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576