The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel (Vintage books) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 01 June 2006
- Format: Paperback 464 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099481379 ISBN 10: 0099481375
- Sales rank: 184,684
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Full description for The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. He can remember every book he ever read but nothing about his own life. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws into his old family home and searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and diaries kept in the attic. And so Yambo relives his youth: Mussolini, Catholic education, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the flames to capture one simple, innocent image, that of his first love.
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