- Published: 3 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781448139774
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 14 hr 25 min
- Narrator: Sean Barrett
The Prague Cemetery
- Published: 3 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781448139774
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 14 hr 25 min
- Narrator: Sean Barrett
A novel that takes the power of fakery in history to new heights...This work of teasing historical pseudo-reconstruction combines an intriguing philosophy of history with an elaborate set of reflections on narrative and the nature of fiction.
Times Literary Supplement
Erudite and pop, sinister and passionate...A work destined to become a classic.
La Repubblica
This feels like Eco's most accessible novel since The Name of the Rose, a temptingly complex tale of 19th-century plots and conspiracies, and of an evil genius who may be behind them all
Sunday Times
Has latterly been dubbed the thinking person's Da Vinci Code. But Eco is at home in history in a way that Dan Brown is not...Eco has a sure grasp not only of historical fact but of a period's literature. He's a dab hand at intertextuality...His intent in exposing the moment that lies at the origin of modern anti-Semitism seems to be to show how fictions can have factual consequences. Contemporary spin-doctors take note. Lies, particularly if they follow the pattern of paranoid conspiracies and create an enemy, can have dire effects...Eco is a comic master and, in his 80th year, his irreverent intelligence, if not always his plotting or scabrous taste, remains bracing
Lisa Appignanesi, Independent
A heady fictional mixture of absorbing ideas and historical detail
Sunday Times
There are little games between the author and the reader, but what makes this novel superior to Eco's recent fictional work, and perhaps even the best novel of the six he has produced, is that he combines a deep seriousness and intrigue of the best fiction. It is a historical novel dealing with issues - like the fear and hatred of anyone regarded as alien -still important today
Joseph Farrell, Herald
Eco is one of the world's great intellectuals
Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror
Perhaps history's first and biggest conspiracy theory
John Harding, Daily Mail