Prague Cemetery - by Umberto Eco (Paperback)

About the Book

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?

Book Synopsis

The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.

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?

"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." --The New York Times

From the Back Cover

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
[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.
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Review Quotes

"A well-executed thriller . . . Provocative and suspenseful." -- USA Today

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

"[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

About the Author

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.