The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco’s modern classic The Name of the Rose”takes place at a truly transcendental time in world history, when mankind was on the verge of ideas and discoveries that would violently throw it into a world more like today's. The year is 1327- Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective in a time when detectives had not even the title. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are taking place under night’s elusive cover. A truly spectacular critical and commercial success on its initial publication, The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages.