![]() ![]() His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. Umberto Eco has written works of fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. This gripping story from the author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE is told with all the power of a master storyteller. Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and murder, NUMERO ZERO reverberates with the clash of the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since the last days of World War II. ![]() 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. As Colonna gets to know the team of journalists, 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. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER 1945, Lake Como. ![]()
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