The name of the rose

& Quot, Rose Name & Quot, - Book with a mystery. At the beginning of the XIV century, shortly after Dante composed & quot, the Divine Comedy & quot, in the heart of Europe, in the Benedictine Monastery are found killed. Blood pours, the spheres of heavens are expanded. A series of crimes does not reproduce English counting, but the proclaiming of the apocalypse. Detective, of course, Englishman. He resembles Sherlock Holmes, and his young student - Dr. Watson. In the tight design of the detective, there is a place and bright facts of the history of Middle Ages, and roll calls with the history of the twentieth century, and the stories about religious conflicts and riots, and a touching story about love, and a lot of new riddles that we, readers in a hurry to allow, but the tricky author is invariably He beats us ... right up to the paradoxical and creepy finals.

Philosophical and detective novel & quot, Rosa"s name & quot, written in 1980, became debut for the Italian philosopher and the historian Umberto Eco. Thin, smart and at the same time an exciting product immediately earned high evaluations of critics and widespread love of readers, which does not weaken more than 30 years later