The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco - June 5, 2006

First Harvest edition. Oversized soft cover which shows slight shelf wear. Pages appear clean and unmarked except for a check mark on the title page.-Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. Memories run wild,- the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: of his first love- Really nice -slightly read book. see pictures maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into I have-good description-pictures,books can be an expensive purchase, Expedited Shipping available-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped through United States Post to fulfill your order, Los Angeles-. your books wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing. . -- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Author Umberto Eco Translated by Geoffrey Brock Edition illustrated, reprint Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 ISBN 0156030438, 9780156030434 Length 469 pages Subjects Fiction ' Literary Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological- Ruth Reaser-BMK 43 fba rt 3681