Numero zero
By: Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
Contributors: Dixon, Richard, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780544668263; 9780544635081
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Modern Civilization; Social satire; Political satire; FICTION / Satire; FICTION / Literary; Fiction
Work titles: Numero zero
Description: "A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--

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 here: 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. --From book jacket.
Notes: Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015.