The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery

by UmbertoEco (Author), RichardDixon (Translator)

Synopsis

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. 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. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery 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 just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 01 Nov 2011

ISBN 10: 1846554926
ISBN 13: 9781846554926
Book Overview: Umberto Eco's biggest book since The Name of the Rose - a brilliant historical novel, which has already sold over a million copies in Europe

Media Reviews
[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
Author Bio
Umberto Eco has written works of fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller, and he has since published four other novels, along with many brilliant collections of essays.