Opis: Numero Zero - Umberto Eco

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. 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. 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. Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II. This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller. "Cynical but heartfelt, utterly flippant yet deadly serious" -- Mark Sanderson The Times "A triumph. While [Eco's] oeuvre has tended to the expansive, this is as sharp as a stiletto, and used as deliberately" -- Stuart Kelly Yorkshire Post "Brims with exuberant inventiveness" -- Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement "A smart, modern mystery" -- Justine Carbery Independent "A triumph" Scotland on Sunday "A conte philosophique on our tendency to see conspiracies everywhere... in the end, a damning confirmation of the long moral and civic decline of Italy over the past fifty years" Il Sole 24 Ore "Eco's novel on post-War Italy inevitably turns into a detective story. But it's one without a culprit: like all the great detective stories of [Italy's] recent history...[which] Eco revisits at high speed in this fast-paced, frequently entertaining novel" La Stampa

Szczegóły: Numero Zero - Umberto Eco

Tytuł: Numero Zero
Autor: Umberto Eco
Producent: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 9781910701089
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 208
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.39 kg

Recenzje: Numero Zero - Umberto Eco