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Numero Zero

Numero Zero

Autor*in: Eco, Umberto

Jahr: 2015

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 208 S.

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The worldwide bestselling novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder from the acclaimed author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶ 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor’s paranoid theory that Mussolini’s corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It’s the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. The evidence? He’s working on it. It’s all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, murderâ€"and clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II, from Mussolini to Berlusconi, that will keep readers turning the pages as the novel’s thrilling plot unfolds.
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UMBERTO ECO has written numerous essay collections and five novels, including The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Titel: Numero Zero

Autor*in: Eco, Umberto

Übersetzer*in: Dixon, Richard

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin

ISBN: 9780544635098

Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen

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