Prague Cemetery

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Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon: Prague Cemetery (2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

464 pages

English language

Published April 23, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

ISBN:
978-0-547-57761-6
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4 stars (1 review)

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History is more unbelievable than fiction

4 stars

Love Eco and most of his books. This one suffers a bit from using so much real historical information that it read a bit to me like a series of Wikipedia articles. The protagonist is horrible, but in this case, one that is pretty fun to read about. He LOVES good food. His fantasy of an all-night dining fest is a highlight. A casual mention of a certain French restaurant led me to learn about "pressed duck," and it's even more disgusting than it sounds.

If you enjoy the vocabularistic erudition of his other works, there's a bit less here. I hardly had to look up any words, while in his other novels I need to check on a few a page. Which I love to do! Still. This book was one of the highest-rated by my book club, which usually struggles to agree on a book's merit. A tonic …

Subjects

  • Fiction, historical
  • Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Europe, fiction
  • Fiction, suspense