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The Name of the Rose
James Mustich says, "it combines the author's academic interest in semiotics (the study of how cultures communicate via signs) with the allure of esoteric erudition to create a seductive variation on the most comfortable of reading pleasures: the classic English mystery... What is Brother William if not a playfully embellished precursor of the great deductionist Sherlock Holmes?"
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Now a series starring John Turturro as William of Baskerville airing on SundanceTV
Umberto Eco’s first novel, an international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Étranger awards
The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night.”
“Like the labyrinthine library at its heart, this brilliant novel has many cunning passages and secret chambers . . . Fascinating . . . ingenious . . . dazzling.” – Newsweek
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