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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
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In 1327, the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his young novice Adso arrive at a wealthy Benedictine abbey in northern Italy for a tense theological debate. Then monks start dying in strange ways. William uses careful logic to investigate while the abbey's huge, maze-like library guards its secrets. The novel mixes a gripping whodunit with arguments about faith, heresy, laughter and the power of books. It's set in a cold, dangerous world where questioning things carries real risk. This is a long, rich and dark novel of ideas that also works as a detective story, full of atmosphere and intellectual suspense.
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