Pre-Owned Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana (Paperback) 0436205890 9780436205897

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. His memories run wild and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple innocent image: that of his first love. A fascinating abundant novel-wide-ranging nostalgic funny full of heart-from the incomparable Eco.