{"product_id":"numero-zero-9780544811836","title":"Numero Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Eco combines his delight in suspense with astute political satire in this brainy, funny, neatly lacerating thriller.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1945, Lake Como.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1992, Milan.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II--from Mussolini to Berlusconi. \u003cem\u003eNumero Zero \u003c\/em\u003eis the work of a master storyteller. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Although \u003cem\u003eNumero Zero \u003c\/em\u003etakes place in 1992, Eco may as well be describing our current journalistic landscape of hot takes and click bait.\" --\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Readers of Elena Ferrante or Rachel Kushner will likely catch the barbs in [Eco's] clever absurdities.\" --\u003cem\u003eVulture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUMBERTO ECO has written numerous essay collections and five novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFoucault's Pendulum\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harpervia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514239684882,"sku":"9780544811836","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5e641c9-1e37-4d7a-bbcb-0391e2dd8e2e.jpg?v=1730976592","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/numero-zero-9780544811836","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}