by Umberto Eco · Lumen · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426418685
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«El cementerio de Praga» is a historical novel by Umberto Eco, published by Lumen in hardback (592 pages, in Spanish).
Paris, 1897. Captain Simonini, a unscrupulous Piedmontese, forges documents. Simonini draws inspiration from the serials of Dumas and Eugène Sue to invent conspiracies, discredit politicians and work for the highest bidder. An antisemitic document about the Jewish cemetery in Prague uncovers half a century of machinations.
Translation by Helena Lozano Miralles; original title: «Il cimitero di Praga». Part of the Narrativa collection from Lumen.
For readers of historical fiction and political suspense, with an interest in conspiracies and 19th-century Europe.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
