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An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Étranger awards
The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.$16.99ISBN: 9780156032971Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - March 5th, 2007Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum.$24.99ISBN: 9780156030373Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - June 5th, 2006After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing.
$28.99ISBN: 9780156029063Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - October 6th, 2003It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780156030434Availability: Hard to FindPublished: Mariner Books - June 5th, 2006Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood.$18.99ISBN: 9780547844206Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - September 4th, 2012The #1 international bestseller, from Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose
“Vintage Eco . . . the book is a triumph.” – New York Review of Books
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons.$14.95ISBN: 9780544811836Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - May 17th, 2016#1 Italian bestseller
“Witty and wry . . . It’s hard not to be charmed.” — New York Times Book Review
“One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” — Los Angeles Times
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans.$14.99ISBN: 9781328505859Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - November 13th, 2018Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom.
