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An edition of Numero zero (2013)

Número cero

Primera edición.
  • 2.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 11 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

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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Language
Spanish
Pages
218

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Número Cero / Numero Zero
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
pocket book
Cover of: Numéro zéro
Numéro zéro: roman
2015, B. Grasset
in French
Cover of: Numero zero
Numero zero
2015
in English - First U.S. edition.
Cover of: Número cero
Número cero
2015
in Spanish - Primera edición.

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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2015

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.914
Library of Congress
PQ4865.C6 N864 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
218 pages
Number of pages
218

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27209779M
Internet Archive
nmerocero0000ecou
ISBN 10
1101912472
ISBN 13
9781101912478
OCLC/WorldCat
900792669

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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