Numero Zero
by Umberto Eco
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Pub Date Nov 05 2015 | Archive Date Nov 23 2015
Vintage, Penguin Random House | Vintage Digital
Description
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose
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 takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. There 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.
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.
Advance Praise
Eco’s novel on post-War Italy inevitably turns into a detective story. But it's one without a culprit: like all the great detective stories of [Italy’s] recent history...[which] Eco revisits at high speed in this fast-paced, frequently entertaining novel - La Stampa
A conte philosophique on our tendency to see conspiracies everywhere… [and] in the end, a damning confirmation of the long moral and civic decline of Italy over the past fifty years - Il Sole 24 Ore
Terrific – brave, even - Il Giornale
On the sly, [Eco] has been braver then Houellebecq… [he] has shown that he has balls - La Repubblica
Practically a manual on today’s communications - L'Espresso
Marketing Plan
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Name of the Rose
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'Magnificent... marks a return to the heady mixture of absorbing ideas and down-and-dirty historical detail that made The Name of the Rose such an international bestseller' Sunday Times
'An extremely readable narrative of betrayal, terrorism, murder… chilling.' Sunday Telegraph
'A great mystery novel about paranoia, prejudice and forgery... We gain access to a world of city streets, strange anecdotes, gourmet menus, and conspiratorial minds... Eco’s best since The Name of the Rose' Independent
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781473523272 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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