An extraordinary epic,brilliantly-imagined,new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous,dazzling,beguiling tale of history,myth and invention. It is 1204,and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors,and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099422396Number of pages: 528Weight: 360 gDimensions: 198 x 128 x 30 mm
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A whirlwind of an adventure- and has everything - myths,marvels,monsters,murders,mysteriesHere is the Eco of The Name of the Rose...poised,mischievous and erudite,the fruit of extraordinary knowledge(Eco) has given us,in the book's central character,a grand and sympathetic figure in the tradition of Candide and Sancho PanzaMixing pages of intellectual discussion and exhilarating comedy - further reveals Eco's practically inexhaustible eruditionA richly entertaining novel
Umberto Eco
A revered Italian author,academic,philosopher and critic,Umberto Eco was a true polymath with wide-ranging interests across fields of literature,semiotics,popular culture and gastronomy. A distinctive and eccentric figure who achieved cult status after the publication of his bestseller The Name of the Rose,his other works include Foucault's Pendulum,Baudolino,The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero.
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