Prague Cemetery: Umberto Eco - Softcover

Eco, Umberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547844204 ISBN 13: 9780547844206

Publisher: HarperVia, 2012

Synopsis

The #1 international bestseller, from Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose

"Vintage Eco . . . the book is a triumph." - New York Review of Books

Nineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man?

"[Eco] demonstrates once again that his is a voice that compels our attention" - San Francisco Chronicle

"Choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale . . . Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction truth vividly to life." - New York Times

"Classic Eco, with a difference." - Los Angeles Times

About this title

Review:

"I find this book fascinating, perhaps the best Eco has written in years." --Huffington Post "A well-executed thriller . . . provocative and suspenseful." --USA Today

"[Eco's] latest takes that longtime thriller darling, the conspiracy theory, and turns it into something grander...Sold to 40 countries and said to be controversial; a speed-read with smarts." --Library Journal, "My Picks"

"A whirlwind tour of conspiracy and political intrigue...this dark tale is delightfully embellished with sophisticated and playful commentary on, among other things, Freud, metafiction, and the challenges of historiography." --Booklist

"Intriguing, hilarious....a tale by a master." --Publishers Weekly boxed review

"He's got a humdinger in this new high-level whodunit...a perplexing, multilayered, attention-holding mystery." --Kirkus, starred

Book Description:

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012

'Eco's most accessible novel since The Name of the Rose, a temptingly complex tale of 19th-century plots and conspiracies' - Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVia
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547844204
• ISBN 13: 9780547844206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464