Baudolino - Umberto Eco The Disappearing Act is a

The Disappearing Act is a haunting meditation on identity

Taking the reader by the arm

Examining questions of faith

with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry

microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak

Baudolino - Umberto Eco The Disappearing Act is aDiscover the Middle Ages with Baudolino a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention. It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Original Language: Italian Translator: William