The Prague Cemetery: A Novel
- Trade Paperback
- London: Harvill Secker, 2011
London: Harvill Secker, 2011. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Fifth printing. Edge wear, small tear along bottom edge of front cover. 2011 Trade Paperback. 439 pp. "Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man'Â