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Numero zero

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An edition of Numero zero (2013)

Numero zero

1. ed. Bompiani.
  • 2.0 (2 ratings)
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"Una redazione raccogliticcia che prepara un quotidiano destinato, più che all'informazione, al ricatto, alla macchina del fango, a bassi servizi per il suo editore. Un redattore paranoico che, aggirandosi per una Milano allucinata (o allucinato per una Milano normale), ricostruisce la storia di cinquant'anni sullo sfondo di un piano sulfureo costruito intorno al cadavere putrefatto di uno pseudo Mussolini. E nell'ombra Gladio, la P2, l'assassinio di papa Luciani, il colpo di stato di Junio Valerio Borghese, la Cia, i terroristi rossi manovrati dagli uffici affari riservati, vent' anni di stragi e di depistaggi, un insieme di fatti inspiegabili che paiono inventati sino a che una trasmissione della BBC non prova che sono veri, o almeno che sono ormai confessati dai loro autori. E poi un cadavere che entra in scena all'improvviso nella più stretta e malfamata via di Milano. Un'esile storia d'amore tra due protagonisti perdenti per natura, un ghost writer fallito e una ragazza inquietante che per aiutare la famiglia ha abbandonato l'università e si è specializzata nel gossip su affettuose amicizie, ma ancora piange sul secondo movimento della Settima di Beethoven. Un perfetto manuale per il cattivo giornalismo che il lettore via via non sa se inventato o semplicemente ripreso dal vivo. Una storia che si svolge nel 1992 in cui si prefigurano tanti misteri e follie del ventennio successivo, proprio mentre i due protagonisti pensano che l'incubo sia finito. Una vicenda amara e grottesca che si svolge in Europa dalla fine della guerra ai giorni nostri."--publisher's or seller's website.

"Somebody preparing a newspaper intended, rather than to information, to blackmail... An editor, paranoid, wandering around a haunted Milan (or a hallucination of a normal Milan), traces the history of fifty years against the backdrop of a plan built around the sulfurous rotten corpse of a pseudo Mussolini. And in the shadows... the assassination of Pope Luciani, the coup of Junio Valerio Borghese, the CIA, the terrorists caught red handled by private business offices, vent years of massacres and false leads, a set of inexplicable facts that seem invented until a BBC interview does not prove that they are true, or at least they are now confessed by their authors. And then a body that comes in suddenly in the closest and infamous street in Milan. A slender love story between two protagonists, losers by nature, a failed ghost writer and a disturbing girl are to help one of their families, she dropped out of college and has specialized in the gossip of affectionate friendships, but still crying on the second movement of the Seventh Beethoven. A perfect manual for bad journalism that the reader does not know whether it is all gradually invented or merely repeated live. A story that takes place in 1992 in which foreshadow many mysteries and follies of the next two decades, even as the two protagonists think that the nightmare is over. A bitter and grotesque story that takes place in Europe since the end of the war to the present day.--cataloger's translation of publisher's or seller's website.

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Publisher
Bompiani
Language
Italian
Pages
218

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Número Cero / Numero Zero
2019, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
in Spanish
Cover of: Numero Zero
Numero Zero
Mar 30, 2016, French and European Publications Inc, LGF
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Cover of: Número cero
Número cero
2015
in Spanish - Primera edición.
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Numero zero
2015, Bompiani
in Italian - 1. ed. Bompiani.
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Numéro zéro: roman
2015, B. Grasset
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Edition Notes

Novel.

Published in
[Milan, Italy]
Series
Narratori italiani
Other Titles
Numero 0

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853
Library of Congress
PQ4865.C6 N86 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
218 pages
Number of pages
218

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27182302M
ISBN 10
8845278514
ISBN 13
9788845278518
LCCN
2015475314
OCLC/WorldCat
902635297

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL17140057W

Work 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.

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