The Name of the Rose
Set in 1327, Umberto Eco's celebrated novel opens with a Franciscan friar, Brother William of Baskerville, arriving at a prosperous Italian abbey to look into suspicions of heresy. It's a sensitive assignment, but it quickly spirals into something far darker. Seven deaths, each stranger than the last, pull William away from theology and into the role of investigator. He pores over coded manuscripts, reads cryptic symbols, and picks his way through the abbey's unsettling warren of corridors, where secrets breed in the shadows after dark. What makes this book so absorbing is how much it offers beyond a simple whodunit. It's equal parts murder mystery and richly observed portrait of medieval life, drawing you into a world of monastic obsession, forbidden knowledge, and flickering candlelight. Both readers and critics took to it with considerable enthusiasm on its release, and it's not hard to see why. Eco writes with a scholar's precision and a storyteller's instinct for tension. If you've ever wanted a mystery that leaves you genuinely thinking, this is the one to pick up.
- Author: Umberto Eco
- Publisher: Vintage
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality
- ISBN: 978-0749397050
- Pages: 592 pages