Umberto Eco, the largest contemporary writer, medievalist, semiotic, and mass culture specialist, proved with his first novel The Name of the Rose that intellectual prose can also top the superbestseller lists. Since then, the novel has been translated into dozens of languages, filmed, and has a circulation of several million worldwide. «The Name of the Rose» rightfully belongs to the world’s literary masterpieces of the 20th century.
1327, an unnamed monastery in northern Italy, a series of mysterious and terrible deaths. The visiting Franciscan monk Wilhelm of Baskerville is taken up to investigate them. Very soon it becomes clear: only the book can be the cause of the crimes in this abode of the scribes. A book whose traces are lost in the darkness of Africa’s Reach …
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