The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco
KORTE INHOUD
THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME has two acts. Each act revolves around a stroke. The first stroke - the opening - takes away the protagonist's lived memory. In other words, Yambo (as he's known) has amnesia, cannot remember his name, wife, children or how fast cars move, but he can remember everything he has ever read - the vast library of a voracious reader. The first half of the book takes the form of an investigation: what has Yambo's life been over the last sixty years? After wandering around Milan somewhat helplessly - running into former mistresses whom he doesn't recognize, trying to establish whether he loved or merely admired from afar his beautiful young assistant - Yambo retreats to his childhood summer home, Solara, in the Piemonte mountains. There he takes to the attic, where he goes through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records and albums, effectively trying to build a memory from scratch through the artefacts of his distant childhood. Then he finds the book of a lifetime - the book of a rare-book-deale...
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2005Uitgever: Secker & Warburg464 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0436205637ISBN-13: 9780436205637Koop dit boek tweedehands
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