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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original Italian title: La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by the Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in 2004, and an English language translation by Geoffrey Brock was published in spring 2005.
Jun 1, 2004 · The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana tells of an antiquarian book dealer who has suffered a stroke and lost all memory of the people in and events of his life. At the novel's outset, the protagonist, Yambo, begins the daunting work of trying to reinsert himself into the life he has forgotten.
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"The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" borrows its name from a picture book whose luscious heroine Bodoni rediscovers suspended in "an incredibly slipshod narrative that lacks both charm and...
Feb 6, 2020 · The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is perhaps as close as Eco may ever come to writing an "autobiographical" novel. The main character, a middle-aged Italian who makes his living selling rare books, suffers a memory loss.
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Umberto Eco. The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana. Select a format: Retailers: Amazon Blackwells Bookshop.org Foyles Hive Waterstones WHSmith. Summary. In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss.
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Umberto Eco. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - Fiction - 480 pages. International bestselling and award-winning author Umberto Eco's illustrated novel The...
