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Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated by Richard Dixon.

by Eco, Umberto.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015.

Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Numero zero. English

1st American ed.

191 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015.

Translated from the Italian.

"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 ofbloodshed, 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 Nameof the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum."--Publisher.

Political fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

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