Numero Zero - by Umberto Eco (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the best-selling author of <i>The Name of the Rose</i> and <i>The Prague Cemetery</i>, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>#1 Italian bestseller</i></b> <p/> "Witty and wry . . . It's hard not to be charmed." -- <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> "One of the most influential thinkers of our time." -- <i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/><b>1945, Lake Como.</b> Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. <p/><b>1992, Milan.</b> 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. <p/> It's all there: 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. "Farcical, serious, satiric, and tragic" (<i>Le Point, </i>France), <i>Numero Zero</i> is the work of a master storyteller. <p/> UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including <i>The Name of the Rose, </i><i>The Prague Cemetery, </i> and <i>Inventing the Enemy.</i> He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><br /><b><i>#1 Italian bestseller</i></b><br /> <br /> One of the most influential thinkers of our time. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /> <br /><b>1945, Lake Como.</b> Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce s death remain controversial.<br /> <br /><b>1992, Milan.</b> 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.<br /> <br /> It s all there: 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. Farcical, serious, satiric, and tragic (<i>Le Point, </i>France), <i>Numero Zero</i> is the work of a master storyteller.<br /> <br /> UMBERTO ECO (1932 2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including <i>The Name of the Rose, </i><i>The Prague Cemetery, </i> and <i>Inventing the Enemy.</i> He received Italy s highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Legion d Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<br /> "<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b><i>New York Times </i>Paperback Row <br> One of Vulture's "7 Books You Need to Read this November" <br> Included on the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>'s "Holiday Books Roundup" <br> One of <i>Bloomberg Business</i>'s "Eight Books for Your Holiday Reading"</b> <br><b>One of The Millions "Most Anticipated" from the Second Half of 2015</b> <br><b>One of the <i>Sun Herald</i>'s "Ten noteworthy fiction and nonfiction titles on the way"</b> <br><b>December 2015 Indie Next Pick</b> <p/> "Witty and wry...slim in pages but plump in satire about modern Italy...it's hard not to be charmed by the zest of the author."--Tom Rachman, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> "Frequently imitated for his amalgamation of intellect, conspiracism, and historical suspense, the author of <i>In the Name of the Rose</i> takes a more contemporary and satirical turn. In 1992, as Italy works to cleanse itself of corruption, a hack journalist is hired to ghostwrite a memoir about a never-to-be-published gossip rag in order to cover up the real rationale for its fakery. Eco's warped parable is rooted in a very specific time and place, but readers of Elena Ferrante or Rachel Kushner will likely catch the barbs in his clever absurdities."--Vulture (<i>New York</i>), "7 Books You Need to Read this November" <p/> "Colonna, the struggling ghostwriter at the heart of this story, is transfixed by a juicy scoop: that Mussolini was not killed by partisans in 1945, as most believe, but instead survived in hiding. This sly satire, borrowing from outrageous real-life Italian politics, features a larger-than-life leader, conspiracy theories and an almost-corrupt press."--<i>New York Times</i>, Paperback Row <p/> "Numero Zero [is]...a smart puzzle and a delight."--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred <p/> "Eco combines his delight in suspense with astute political satire in this brainy, funny, neatly lacerating thriller.... Eco's caustically clever, darkly hilarious, dagger-quick tale of lies, crimes, and collusions condemns the shameless corruption and greed undermining journalism and governments everywhere. A satisfyingly scathing indictment brightened by resolute love." --<i>Booklist</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>UMBERTO ECO has written numerous essay collections and five novels, including <i>The Name of the Rose</i> and <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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