Numero zero
by Umberto Eco
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"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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Modern Civilization, Social satire, Political satire, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, Alternative histories (Fiction), Italian Social satire, Italian Political satire, Newspapers, Fiction, satire, Italy, fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, political, Fiction, alternative history, Literary, Literature, Satire, Newspaper publishing, Journalism, Corrupt practices, Chantaje, Man-woman relationships, Conspiraciones, Diarios, Verdad y mentira, Autores, Truthfulness and falsehood, Editores financieros, Conspiracies, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Publishers and publishing, Ficción, Extortion, Ghostwriters, Mystery, Assassination, Journalistes, Romans, nouvelles, Presse satirique, Novela, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / PsychologicalPeople
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)Places
Italy, Milan, Italia, Milán, Milan (Italie)Times
20th century, Siglo XXShowing 5 featured editions. View all 21 editions?
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Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015.
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"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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