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Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.

Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
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ISBN 9781910701096 (pbk.)
1910701092 (pbk.)
Name Eco, Umberto author.
Title Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
Published London Harvill Secker, [2015]
©2015
Description 190 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes Translated from the Italian.
Summary 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. 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. 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.
Subjects Newspapers -- Fiction
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Fiction
Political satire, Italian
Social satire, Italian
Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Other Names Dixon, Richard translator.
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