The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

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ambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milán, has suffered a loss of memory—he can remember
the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums,
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and adolescetit diaries. And so Yambo relives the jjóry of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and
guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire.
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His memories run wild, and life races before him in a
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seriés of images, as Yambo struggles to capture one— that of his first love.
"A head^spinning tour through the corridors of history and popular culture, and one of this sly entertainer's liveliest yet." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milán, has suffered a loss of memory—he can remember the plot of every... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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Y
ambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milán, has suffered a loss of memory—he can remember
the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums,
- i . V
and adolescetit diaries. And so Yambo relives the jjóry of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and
guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire.
. t
His memories run wild, and life races before him in a
V* ' 1 '
seriés of images, as Yambo struggles to capture one— that of his first love.
"A head^spinning tour through the corridors of history and popular culture, and one of this sly entertainer's liveliest yet." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milán, has suffered a loss of memory—he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his child-hood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milán and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story ofhis generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memo-ries run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic növel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love.
A fascinating, abundant new növel— wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart—from the incomparable Eco.
Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock Vissza