Featured Book for Sunday, June 12, 2005
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco (Harcourt, ISBN 0151011400, $27)
Eco is Back 
The acclaimed author of Foucalt's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose is back with what is being touted as his finest work of fiction. This illustrated novel tells the story of a Milanese rare-book dealer who loses his "autobiographical memory," as the writer called it last weekend in New York. He recalls the plot of every book he has ever read, every film he's ever seen, but doesn't recognize his family or remember his childhood. (Sneak preview: Pair this with the upcoming Until I Find You from John Irving).
If you want to see a presentation by both authors at this year's BookExpo America, click this link:
BookTV at BookExpo America: Sunday Authors Breakfast: Eco, Ehrenreich, Irving, and Herbert
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posted by All4Word at 9:06 AM
2 Comments:
Eco previously provided stellar "trip books" for European sojourns, and perhaps the new novel will fill the bill in September.
You may wish to wait a year until paper-portability becomes a possibility, Roger. I also think his work has dropped a few notches since F'sP - hence Island of the Day Before, Baulodino and the present. It is worth your time, but i thought Joel might glean more from it, especially given its focus of pop culture and comics.
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