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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

By Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Brock (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9780151011407

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Yambo, 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 childhoContinue

Yambo, 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. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love.

A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco.

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  • Mind games

    The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco Secker & Warburg £17.99, pp464 Neuroscience has become to contemporary novelists what psychoanalysis was to a previous generation - the cutting edge of exploration into the novel's elemental concerns ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Picture perfect

    The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel by Umberto Eco, translated by Geoffrey Brock 464pp, Secker & Warburg, £17.99 Another parade, another outing, another great exhilaration from Umberto Eco, another pouring forth into story of hi ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

    Interesting and beautiful at times. Overall though, requires patience and dedication to finish. I much prefered The Name Of The Rose.

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    Leah said on Jan 14, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • still reading, kind of don't want to finish it in a shor time, it takes time to imagine the life the Yambo

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    Kaitiml2 said on May 17, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • I think you need to share Eco's obsession with 20th C Italian pop culture to get much out of this.

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    huntch said on Apr 4, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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