The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milan, 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, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and life races before him in a series of images, as Yambo struggles to capture one--that of his first love. An illustrated novel.

Umberto Eco, 2005

Hardcover, Very Good

469 pages

766g

23.5 x 16.1 x 3.5 cm