Numero zero
Eco, Umberto2015
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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.
Main title:
Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
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Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2015.London : Harvill Secker, 2015.
Collation:
190 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9781910701089 (hbk)
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EnglishItalian
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BRN:
1464381