TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eco,Umberto
AU  - Dixon,Richard
TI  - The Prague cemetery
SN  - 0547577532 (hbk.)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Conspiracies
KW  - Political crimes and offenses
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Suspense fiction
N2  - "19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jews are blamed for everything. One man connects each of these threads into a massive crazy-quilt conspiracy within conspiracies. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events. "--
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