Numero Zero

Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon

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

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 takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. There 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.

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

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. His other books include Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings, and How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays. He lives in Milan.*****************Umberto Eco, ensayista italiano de renombre internacional y profesor en la universidad de Bolonia, hizo su entrada triunfal en el mundo de la ficción hace más de treinta años con El nombre de la rosa, una novela que lo convirtió en un autor admirado tanto por la crítica como por el gran público. A este primer éxito siguieron El péndulo de Foucault, La isla del día de antes, Baudolino y La misteriosa llama de la reina Loana. Número Cero, su novela más reciente, se ha colocado ya en la lista de títulos más vendidos en Italia y está suscitando una polémica extraordinaria en todos los medios de comunicación.