The Prague Cemetery

Europa im 19. Jahrhundert: Jesuiten verschwören sich gegen Freimaurer, Freimaurer erdrosseln Priester mit ihren eigenen Eingeweiden, die Dreyfus- Affäre, Garibaldi und nicht zuletzt die Entstehung der auf schreckliche Weise geschichtsträchtigen "Protokolle der Weisen von Zion", die später Hitler zu seinen Gräueltaten inspirierten. Inmitten all dieser historischen Fakten spielt Ecos neuer, lange erwarteter und grandioser Roman.Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document? Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.