The Prague Cemetery

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  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee (2012)
  • The Kitschies Nominee for Inky Tentacle (Cover Art) (2011)
  • Kniha roku (2011)
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The Prague Cemetery

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ISBN: 9780099555988
Authors: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Classics, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.49
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Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. 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. 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 its most infamous document? Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.
 

  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee (2012)
  • The Kitschies Nominee for Inky Tentacle (Cover Art) (2011)
  • Kniha roku (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.