{"product_id":"prague-cemetery-umberto-eco","title":"Prague Cemetery: Umberto Eco","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe #1 international bestseller, from Umberto Eco, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vintage Eco . . . the book is a triumph. \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNineteenth-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? \u003cbr\u003e [Eco] demonstrates once again that his is a voice that compels our attention \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Classic Eco, with a difference. \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e[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.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/umberto-eco-books\"\u003eUmberto Eco\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0547844204\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £3.42","offer_id":47912069628081,"sku":"SB-0547844204-C4","price":3.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0547844204.jpg?v=1789444186","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/prague-cemetery-umberto-eco","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}