UMBERTO ECO (1932–2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. “Farcical, serious, satiric, and tragic” ( Le Point, France), Numero Zero is the work of a master storyteller. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II - from Mussolini to Berlusconi. It’s all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. It’s the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. 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.
His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t resist to ghostwrite a book. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial.ġ992, Milan. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. “One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” - Los Angeles Timesġ945, Lake Como.
It’s hard not to be charmed.” - New York Times Book Review
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