num_pages: 512
description: A bestseller in Italy, France, and Germany, the winner of Italy's two most prestigious literary prizes and the French award for best foreign work - a masterful tale set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddeny overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and night of apocalyptic terror. The body of one monk is found in a cask of pigs' blood, another is floating in a bathhouse, still another is crushed at the foot of a cliff. Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon-all sharpened to a glistening edge by his wry hu,mor and ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."
language: English
title: The Name of the Rose
titlecomplete: The Name of the Rose
characters: Jorge of Burgos, Alinardo of Grottaferrata, Remigio of Varagine, Michael of Cesena, William of Baskerville, Salvatore of Montferrat, Benno of Uppsala, Abo of Fossanova, Adso of Melk, Ubertino of Casale, Bernard Gui, Severinus of Sankt Wendel, Malachi of Hildesheim, Nicholas of Morimondo, Venantius of Salvemec, Berengar of Arundel
genres: Fiction, Historical, Italy, Mystery, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Italian Literature, Crime
ratings_count: 355368
places: Italy
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, name: إمبيرتو, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Premio Strega, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: William Weaver, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Premio Anghiari, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Premio Il Libro dell'anno, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: このミステリーがすごい！
category: Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan
publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg