Baudolino - Umberto Eco Translator: Philip Gabriel

Translator: Philip Gabriel

Examining questions of faith

in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom

The Disappearing Act is a haunting meditation on identity

microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak

Baudolino - Umberto Eco Translator: Philip GabrielDiscover 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. Original Language: Italian Translator: William