num_pages: 641
description: Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth.
language: English
title: Foucault's Pendulum
titlecomplete: Foucault's Pendulum
characters: Jacopo Belbo, Signor Casaubon, Artois, Sergei Witte, Belbo, Mary Lena, Hugues de Champagne, Monsieur Rodin, Gabriel Naudé, Aglie, Péladan, Theo Fox, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, de Maistre, Abbé Barruel, Diotallevi, Dufy, Leo Fox, Casaubon, Justine Glinka, Dr. Diotallevi, Elie de Cyon
genres: Historical Fiction, Thriller, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 68507
places: Italy, Milan, Lombardy
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: William Weaver, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Premio Bancarella, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Ars Translationis
publisher: Vintage