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Author Eco, Umberto.

Uniform Title Cimitero di Praga. English
Title The Prague cemetery / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.

Edition First American edition.
Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1500178~S1
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Description viii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Antisemitism -- Fiction.
Conspiracies -- Fiction.
Political crimes and offenses -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1789-1900 -- Fiction.
Added Author Dixon, Richard.
ISBN 9780547577531 (hardback)
0547577532 (hardback)
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SRP 2013
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August 13 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: I really did not like this book. The author invents a narrator/protagonist that is as hateful as he could think up. It is a fictionalized account of anti-Semitism in the 19th century and how the narrator helped bring it about. It is also more explicit than I like. There is some interesting plotting and psychology, but I think the venom towards not only Jews but other groups is too unpleasant.
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