Numero Zero

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Call Number: Fiction / Eco, Umberto
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015.
"From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double. The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, and events that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true. A fragile love story between two born losers, a failed ghost writer, and a vulnerable girl, who specializes in celebrity gossip yet cries over the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh. And then a dead body that suddenly appears in a back alley in Milan. Set in 1992 and foreshadowing the mysteries and follies of the following twenty years, Numero Zero is a scintillating take on our times from the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum"-- Provided by publisher.

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Number submitted by smr on July 4, 2020, 11:45pm Number zero

Umberto Eco's last novel! submitted by topraks on December 18, 2021, 2:06pm “Numero Zero” is a satire of tabloid press and conspiracy theories even it is set in 1950s and 1970s Italy, it still rings true in all societies today. An excellent read.