Samantha's review
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco
Samantha's review
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Samantha's review
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This is the first book that I did not completely mangle in my comings and goings from work. The pages are still crisp and the cover has not fallen off. I consider this an accomplishment, because for me, the sign of a good book is one that is beaten up and dog-eared. I LOVED this novel. It is the first Umberto Eco book that I have read and it was a delight to read.
The main character, a very loveable Italian gentleman named Yambo awakens from a stroke to find that his personal memory bank has been wiped. He does not know what year it is, or who his wife and children are. All that he can remember are common things that everyone knows- snippets of info from books that he has read, and lyrics to songs that he has listened to- but nothing concrete. Nothing that echoes back to his own life. He visits the country home of his youth and there, holed up in the attic, with nothing but boxes of old books and a record player to keep him company- he recreates his childhood- year by painstaking year...more
The main character, a very loveable Italian gentleman named Yambo awakens from a stroke to find that his personal memory bank has been wiped. He does not know what year it is, or who his wife and children are. All that he can remember are common things that everyone knows- snippets of info from books that he has read, and lyrics to songs that he has listened to- but nothing concrete. Nothing that echoes back to his own life. He visits the country home of his youth and there, holed up in the attic, with nothing but boxes of old books and a record player to keep him company- he recreates his childhood- year by painstaking year...more
