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The Prague Cemetery
Kindle edition
AuthorUmberto Eco
Original titleIl cimitero di Praga
TranslatorRichard Dixon
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
GenreHistorical novel, Mystery
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt (Eng. trans. USA)
Harvill Secker (Eng. trans GB)
Publication date
2010
Published in English
8 November 2011
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages437 pp. (hardcover edition)
ISBN978-0547577531
OCLC694829963

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]

  1. ^ "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012". Booktrust. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

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