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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.
About the author
Umberto Eco, geboren 1932 in Alessandria, lebte zuletzt in Mailand. Er studierte Pädagogik und Philosophie und promovierte 1954 an der Universität Turin. Anschließend arbeitete er beim Italienischen Fernsehen und war als freier Dozent für Ästhetik und visuelle Kommunikation in Turin, Mailand und Florenz tätig. Seit 1971 unterrichtet eer Semiotik in Bologna. Eco erhielt neben zahlreichen Auszeichnungen den "Premio Strega" (1981) und wurde u. a.1988 zum Ehrendoktor der Pariser Sorbonne ernannt.§Er verfasste zahlreiche Schriften zur Theorie und Praxis der Zeichen, der Literatur, der Kunst und nicht zuletzt der Ästhetik des Mittelalters. Seine Romane "Der Name der Rose" und "Das Foucaultsche Pendel" sind Welterfolge geworden.§2011 wurde Umberto Eco mit dem "Premio Pavese" ausgezeichnet und 2014 erhielt er den "Gutenberg-Preis" der Landeshauptstadt Mainz und der Internationalen Gutenberg-Gesellschaft. Er verstarb 2016.
Summary
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 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.
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