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The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

The Prague Cemetery BY Umberto Eco. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover, 464 pages. $27.
The cover of The Prague Cemetery

Ambitious writers are often said to challenge their readers. That’s certainly true in the case of Umberto Eco and his latest novel, “The Prague Cemetery,” but not, perhaps, in quite the expected way.