Numero zero

by Eco, Umberto

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Title Statements

Full title :Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvill Secker
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:190 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781910701096, 1910701092, 9781910701089, 1910701084, 9780544635081, 0544635086
oclc:ocn922021640
LC Classification:PQ4865.C6
Dewey Decimal:853.914

Subjects

Alternative histories (Fiction) Civilisation -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.… Civilization, Modern Civilization, Modern -- Fiction. -- 20t… Fiction Journaux -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Newspapers Newspapers -- Fiction Political fiction Political satire, Italian Satire sociale italienne Social satire, Italian