6/27/2023 0 Comments Numero zero by Umberto Eco![]() ![]() This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller. 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.įuelled 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. The evidence? He’s working on it.Ĭolonna is sceptical. 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. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.ġ992, Milan. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. ![]()
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