The Prague Cemetery - by Umberto Eco (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Every nation has its own secret service, and conspiracies rule history. What if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The #1 international bestseller, from Umberto Eco, author of <i>The Name of the Rose</i></b> <p/>"Vintage Eco . . . the book is a triumph." - <i>New York Review of Books</i> <p/>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? <p/>"[Eco] demonstrates once again that his is a voice that compels our attention" - <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"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." - <i>New York Times</i> <p/>"Classic Eco, with a difference." - <i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><b>The #1 international bestseller, from Umberto Eco, author of <i>The Name of the Rose</i></b> <br> Vintage Eco . . . the book is a triumph. <i>New York Review of Books</i> <br>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? <br> [Eco] demonstrates once again that his is a voice that compels our attention <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <br> 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. <i>New York Times</i> <br> Classic Eco, with a difference. <i>Los Angeles Times</i> <br>[author photo] UMBERTO ECO is the author of six best-selling novels and numerous collections of essays. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, he lives in Italy.<br>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>I find this book fascinating, perhaps the best Eco has written in years. --<i>Huffington Post</i> A well-executed thriller . . . provocative and suspenseful. --<i>USA Today</i><p>[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. --<i>Library Journal</i>, My Picks </p><p>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. --<i>Booklist</i> </p><p>Intriguing, hilarious....a tale by a master. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> boxed review </p><p>He's got a humdinger in this new high-level whodunit...a perplexing, multilayered, attention-holding mystery. --<i>Kirkus</i>, starred <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Umberto Eco</b> is the author of six best-selling novels and numerous collections of essays. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, he lives in Italy.
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