The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana

Umberto Eco

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English

Vintage
02 October 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

This remarkable illustrated novel is Eco's most accessible and entertaining book since The Name of the Rose.

In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. He can remember every book he ever read but nothing about his own life.

In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws into his old family home and searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and diaries kept in the attic. And so Yambo relives his youth- Mussolini, Catholic education, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the flames to capture one simple, innocent image, that of his first love.

By: Umberto Eco
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 382g
ISBN: 9780099481379
ISBN 10: 0099481375
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 02 October 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Umberto Eco is the author of four bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before and, most recently, Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. He is also the author of On Beauty. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy.

Reviews for The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana

Confirms Eco as an outstanding writer of philosophy dressed as fiction -- Stephanie Merrit Observer As always with Eco, there is much to admire Sunday Times A beautiful evocation of a difficult period of Italian history, full of the flair and erudition for which we love Eco Metro Genuinely clever...the writing, the quotes and the pictures often tickle the brain Irish Independent Witty, playful, and incorrigibly erudite, Eco clearly had fun writing this book. There is much to enjoy Daily Mail