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1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.
1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team of journalists, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio who is convinced that Mussolini’s corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It’s the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? He’s working on it.
Colonna is sceptical. But when a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley and the paper is shut down, even he is jolted out of his complacency.
Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and murder, NUMERO ZERO reverberates with the clash of the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since the last days of World War II. This gripping story from the author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE is told with all the power of a master storyteller.
1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team of journalists, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio who is convinced that Mussolini’s corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It’s the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? He’s working on it.
Colonna is sceptical. But when a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley and the paper is shut down, even he is jolted out of his complacency.
Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and murder, NUMERO ZERO reverberates with the clash of the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since the last days of World War II. This gripping story from the author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE is told with all the power of a master storyteller.
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"A triumph" (Scotland on Sunday)
"A smart, modern mystery" (Justine Carbery Independent)
"A novel for our times" (Irish News)
"Brims with exuberant inventiveness" (Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement)
"Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment" (Anthony Cummins Guardian)
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"A smart, modern mystery" (Justine Carbery Independent)
"A novel for our times" (Irish News)
"Brims with exuberant inventiveness" (Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement)
"Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment" (Anthony Cummins Guardian)
Umberto Eco is an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books, and certainly one of the finest authors of the twentieth century. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative inventions. His perceptive essays on modern culture are filled with a delightful sense of humor and irony, and his ideas on semiotics, interpretation, and aesthetics have established his reputation as one of academia’s foremost thinkers.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1910701092
- ISBN 13 9781910701096
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Inglés. This gripping conspiracy thriller by the author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE is already a number one bestseller in Italy. At Lake Como in 1945, Mussolini is captured by partisans and shot. Decades later, the details of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in controversy. Fuelled by media hoaxes and gossip, NUMERO ZERO unearths the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since the last days of World War II. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla. Seller Inventory # 12827559
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