Numero Zero
Paperback/Fiction 208 pages English May 17, 2016
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"Eco combines his delight in suspense with astute political satire in this brainy, funny, neatly lacerating thriller." --Booklist 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial.1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. The evidence? He's working on it.It's all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II--from Mussolini to Berlusconi. Numero Zero is the work of a master storyteller. "Although Numero Zero takes place in 1992, Eco may as well be describing our current journalistic landscape of hot takes and click bait." --Los Angeles Times"Readers of Elena Ferrante or Rachel Kushner will likely catch the barbs in [Eco's] clever absurdities." --Vulture
- Author:
- Umberto Eco
- Publisher:
- Harpervia
- Publication Date:
- May 17, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 0544811836
- ISBN-13:
- 9780544811836