Umberto Eco is recognized as one of our outstanding living writers whose best-selling novels include The Name of the Rose (1982), Foucault's Pendulum (1989), The Island of the Day Before (1995) and Baudolino (2002). His illustrated works On Beauty (2004) and The Infinity of Lists (2009) are companion volumes to On Ugliness. Alastair McEwen is the translator of some of Italy's finest living writers, among them Antonio Tabucchi, Sandro Veronesi, Fleur Jaeggy and Alessandro Baricco.
'guaranteed to deliver all kinds of provocative and arcane delights. Like most of Eco's work, it defies ready classification, but is surely the better for that. Highly recommended' Historical Novels Review.