Il cimitero di Praga

By Umberto Eco

Subjects: Novela italiana, Protocols of the elders of Zion, Juvenile delinquency -- Germany, NEW LIST 20111130, Fiction, historical, FICTION / Literary, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general, Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Germany, Fiction, suspense, FICTION / Historical, Conspiracies, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Literary, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-11-27, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Historical, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Political crimes and offenses, Europe, fiction, Europe, History, Italian literature, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense, Antisemitism

Description: "19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jews are blamed for everything. One man connects each of these threads into a massive crazy-quilt conspiracy within conspiracies. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events. "--