Author | Umberto Eco |
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Original title | Il cimitero di Praga |
Translator | Richard Dixon |
Language | Italian |
Genre | Historical novel, Mystery |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Eng. trans. USA) Harvill Secker (Eng. trans GB) |
Publication date | 2010 |
Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 8 November 2011 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 437 pp. (hardcover edition) |
ISBN | 978-0547577531 |
OCLC | 694829963 |
The Prague Cemetery (Italian: Il cimitero di Praga) is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012, it has been described as Eco's best novel since The Name of the Rose.[1]