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The Name Of The Rose

author: Umberto Ecoshelved under: Fiction
date: 1983 c. 1980publisher: Picador
content type: book
description: It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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Foucault's Pendulum

author: Umberto Ecoshelved under: Fiction
date: 1990 (circa 1988)publisher: Picador
content type: book
description: Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

author: Umberto Ecoshelved under: Fiction
date: 2005publisher: Secker and Warburg
content type: book
description: The plot of the book concerns Yambo, a 59-year-old Milanese antiquarian book dealer who loses his episodic memory due to a stroke. At the beginning of the novel, he can remember everything he has ever read, but does not remember his family, his past, or even his own name. Yambo decides to go to Solara, his childhood home, parts of which he has abandoned following family tragedy, to see if he can rediscover his lost past.

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