In this fascinating, ahundant new novel from the incomparahle Eco,Yamho, a rare-hook dealer, has sullY.red a bizarre form of memory loss. tic can rememher every hook he has ever read but nothing ,about his own life.

In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to his old family home and searches through the hoxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo alhums and diaries kept in the attic. And so Yamho relives his youth: Mussolini,

Catholic education,Josephine Bakec Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. llis memories run wild, and life hieing hefore his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image, thai of his first love.

PART ONE: THE INCIDENT

  1. The Cruellest Month 3

  2. The Murmur of Mulberry Leaves 28

  3. Someone May Pluck Your Flower 45

  4. Alone through City Streets I Go 64

PART TWO: PAPER MEMORY

  5. Clarabelle's Treasure 81

  6. Il Nuovissimo Melzi 90

  7. Eight Days in an Attic 117

  8. When the Radio 159

  9. But Pippo Doesn't Know 178

  10. The Alchemist's Tower 212

  11. Up There at Capocabana 227

  12. Blue Skies Are on the Way 257

  13. The Pallid Little Maiden 272

  14. The Hotel of the Three Roses 295

PART THREE: OI NOETOI

  15. You're Back at Last, Friend Mist! 301

  16. The Wind Is Whistling 325

  17. The Provident Young Man 379

  18. Lovely Thou Art as the Sun 406

SOURCES OF CITATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 451