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Baudolino (Paperback)
Amazon.com Review
The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century. Baudolino’s other gift is for spontaneous but convincing lies, a (more…)
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From Publishers Weekly
If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco’s second novel–also an intellectual blockbuster–should prove more accessible. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges [...]