Description: 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?
Brief description:
Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega; was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government; and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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