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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsThe Prague Cemeteryby Umberto Eco
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The latest international bestseller from the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
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? What if that evil genius created the world's most infamous document? Review:"I find this book fascinating, perhaps the best Eco has written in years." Huffington Post
Review:"A well-executed thriller...provocative and suspenseful." USA Today
Review:"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
Review:"Vintage Eco...the book is a triumph." New York Review of Books
Review:"[Eco] demonstrates once again that his is a voice that compels our attention." San Francisco Chronicle
Review:"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
Review:"Classic Eco, with a difference." Los Angeles Times
Synopsis:The Prague Cemetery is the latest international bestseller from Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose. Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with political and religious conspiracies from Turin to Prague to Paris. What if, behind it all, lay one lone man determining the fate of the Continent?
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 the AuthorUmberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the best-selling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Italy.
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