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by Umberto Eco - Fiction

Yambo, a 60-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic,' but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't tecognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhood. As he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lost. But a relapse occurs.