Baudolino
  • Published: 1 October 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099422396
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $32.99
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Baudolino

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'A totally compelling journey into a lost world - a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention.

It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
  • Published: 1 October 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099422396
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

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Also by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose
How to Spot a Fascist
On the Shoulders of Giants
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
Numero Zero
How to Write a Thesis
Inventing the Enemy
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Praise for Baudolino

A whirlwind of an adventure- and has everything - myths, marvels, monsters, murders, mysteries

Financial Times

Here is the Eco of The Name of the Rose...poised, mischievous and erudite, the fruit of extraordinary knowledge

Washington Post

[Eco] has given us, in the book's central character, a grand and sympathetic figure in the tradition of Candide and Sancho Panza

Independent on Sunday

Mixing pages of intellectual discussion and exhilarating comedy - further reveals Eco's practically inexhaustible erudition

Irish Times

A richly entertaining novel

Sunday Times
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