The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Couverture rigide

Eco, Umberto

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151011400 ISBN 13 : 9780151011407

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love.

A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco.

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR BAUDOLINO
"A richly variegated haul of medieval treasures . . . Compulsively readable."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

PRAISE FOR THE NAME OF THE ROSE
"The kind of novel that changes our mind, replaces our reality with its own."-LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Like the labyrinthine library at its heart, this brilliant novel has many cunning passages and secret chambers . . . Fascinating . . . Ingenious . . . Dazzling."-NEWSWEEK

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0151011400
• ISBN 13: 9780151011407
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480