Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Baudolino

Umberto Eco with William Weaver

522 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious slow-paced
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Baudolino is ideal for readers who relish intricate historical labyrinths woven with fantastical lies and political machinations, where every shadow hides a story waiting to unravel.

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It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certa...

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