Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
This novel follows three intellectual friends who work at a small publishing house. As a joke, they start inventing a conspiracy theory about a secret society that has been manipulating world events for centuries. However, as they delve deeper into their own fabrication, they begin to lose sight of what's real and what's not. Their lives take a dangerous turn when actual secret societies believe they hold the key to a universal secret and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
The 785th greatest book of all time
- Published
- 1988
- Nationality
- Italian
- Type
- Fiction
- Pages
- 500-700
- Words
- 196,000
- Original Language
- Italian
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- 51st on Big Read (Bulgarian) (Bulgaria)
- 155th on The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users (Culture Café)
- 1293rd on Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- The Graphic Canon (Book)
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
- 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (The Guardian)