Numero zero

The Resource Numero zero
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Numero zero
Statement of responsibility
Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
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  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
Summary
  • In 1992 Milan, hack writer Colonna gets a job on a fake newspaper designed as a tool of blackmail by a power-hungry media mogul, where he becomes acquainted with his colleague's conspiracy theories about recent Italian history
  • "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"--
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NjBwBT
Dewey number
853/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PQ4865.C6
LC item number
N8613 2015
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries

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