num_pages: 522
description: An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention.It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
language: English
title: Baudolino
titlecomplete: Baudolino
characters: Abdullah, Niketas Choniates, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, The Poet, Baudolino Aulario
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Historical, Fantasy, Italy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 22947
places: Constantinople
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix Méditerranée Étranger
publisher: Vintage