Numero Zero

Umberto Eco: trans. Richard Dixon

ISBN 10: 1910701084 / ISBN 13: 9781910701089

Published by Harvill Secker, London, 2015

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1st printing. Red hardcover with black lettering to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. 143 x 225 x 22mm. 190pp. A pristine copy - as new. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Numero Zero
• Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910701084
• ISBN 13: 9781910701089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, 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 conspiracy theories, Mafiosi, love, corruption and murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller.

About the Authors

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

Richard Dixon lives and works in Italy. His translations include Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery and Inventing the Enemy, and Roberto Calasso’s Ardor and The Art of the Publisher. He was one of the translators of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone.