Numero zero - Brossura

Eco, Umberto

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784701831 ISBN 13: 9781784701833

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2016

Riassunto

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, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, 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. It’s the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? He’s working on it.

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.

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Recensione:

"A triumph" (Scotland on Sunday)

"A smart, modern mystery" (Justine Carbery Independent)

"A novel for our times" (Irish News)

"Brims with exuberant inventiveness" (Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement)

"Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment" (Anthony Cummins Guardian)

Descrizione del libro:

The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Name of the Rose

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784701831
• ISBN 13: 9781784701833
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272