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Numero Zero Umberto Eco

Numero Zero By Umberto Eco

Numero Zero by Umberto Eco


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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. 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.

Numero Zero Summary

Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

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.

Numero Zero Reviews

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 *
Cynical but heartfelt, utterly flippant yet deadly serious -- Mark Sanderson * The Times *
A conte philosophique on our tendency to see conspiracies everywhere... in the end, a damning confirmation of the long moral and civic decline of Italy over the past fifty years * Il Sole 24 Ore *

About Umberto Eco

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.

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GOR010426512
9781910701089
1910701084
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Used - Like New
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
20151105
208
N/A
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