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Baudolino: A Novel
Umberto EcoIt is April 1204, & Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked & burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage & confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian & high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors & proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts--a talent for learning languages & a skill in telling lies. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit & lively mind. The commander--who proves to be Emperor Frederick Barbarossa--adopts Baudolino & sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends.
Spurred on by myths & their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East--a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders & mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, & lovely maidens.
As always with Eco, this abundant novel includes dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, & vicarious reflections on our postmodern age. This is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best.
International Bestseller
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