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Numero Zero, by Umberto Eco
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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 murderA 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 of bloodshed, 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 Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
Numero Zero, by Umberto Eco- Amazon Sales Rank: #65739 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .84" w x 5.50" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 208 pages
Review One of Vulture's "7 Books You Need to Read this November" Included on the Los Angeles Times's "Holiday Books Roundup" One of Bloomberg Business's "Eight Books for Your Holiday Reading"One of The Millions "Most Anticipated" from the Second Half of 2015One of the Sun Herald's "Ten noteworthy fiction and nonfiction titles on the way"December 2015 Indie Next Pick “Witty and wry...slim in pages but plump in satire about modern Italy...it’s hard not to be charmed by the zest of the author.”—Tom Rachman, New York Times Book Review "Frequently imitated for his amalgamation of intellect, conspiracism, and historical suspense, the author of In the Name of the Rose takes a more contemporary and satirical turn. In 1992, as Italy works to cleanse itself of corruption, a hack journalist is hired to ghostwrite a memoir about a never-to-be-published gossip rag in order to cover up the real rationale for its fakery. Eco’s warped parable is rooted in a very specific time and place, but readers of Elena Ferrante or Rachel Kushner will likely catch the barbs in his clever absurdities."—Vulture (New York), "7 Books You Need to Read this November" "Numero Zero [is]...a smart puzzle and a delight."—Kirkus Reviews, starred "Eco combines his delight in suspense with astute political satire in this brainy, funny, neatly lacerating thriller…. Eco’s caustically clever, darkly hilarious, dagger-quick tale of lies, crimes, and collusions condemns the shameless corruption and greed undermining journalism and governments everywhere. A satisfyingly scathing indictment brightened by resolute love." --Booklist
From the Inside Flap From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose, an enthralling new conspiracy thriller 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, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II—from Mussolini to Berlusconi. “Farcical, serious, satiric, and tragic” (Le Point, France), Numero Zero is the work of a master storyteller.
From the Back Cover “Numero Zero [is] . . . a smart puzzle and a delight.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "One of the most influential thinkers of our time." — Los Angeles Times “Once the reader gets on the Eco carousel it’s hard to get off.” — New York Times
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Great Read! By DMD I never thought I would say this, but this was an easy to read Eco novel! Not easy relative to most authors, but easy by his standards.There are still countless literary and cultural references (I stopped tying to keep count after about 10 pages) and it wouldn’t be Eco without a few interleaved conspiracy theories.The main protagonist, Colonna, has floated through life, mostly unsuccessful at school, work and love. In his own words, a loser.He’s given an opportunity as a lead editor at a brand new newspaper, and also given an opportunity to ghost write a book by the publisher – the reason for the book is the first layer of conspiracy. His fellow co-workers at the paper are equally unsuccessful in life, losers in their own ways. Colonna does find a love interest with the lone female employee, and gets drawn into another conspiracy (involving Mussolini and the Vatican) with the aptly named Braggadocio.Unlike many of Eco’s work, this did not require a great deal of effort to read. Most of his novels (I have read everything published in English) tend be a challenge to get through, though I enjoy the rewards and the complex storylines he develops.Numero Zero is not nearly as long, deep or complex as books like The Island of the Day Before or Foucault’s Pendulum, but I really enjoyed the flow of the story, and it is still clearly an Eco work, just more concise.Definitely recommended - especially if you are drawn to Umberto Eco’s work.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Umberto Eco continues his fascination with conspiracies By Michael Birman Umberto Eco continues his fascination with conspiracies - real, imagined or metaphorical - in this very short novel whose first-person narrator is reminiscent of the narrator of Foucault's Pendulum and The Prague Cemetery. All three are engaged in a search, perhaps a search for meaning or purpose, perhaps an explanation for why they are searching. In The Name of the Rose the search involved a real labyrinth and a lost book ostensibly written by Aristotle.Numero Zero is not as accomplished as Eco's previous novels. Its short length precludes offering Eco's subject the depth it requires. Unlike the previous novels, where their sheer mass of detail served to exemplify the search in a very tangible way, giving the novels an oppressive and mysterious atmosphere that filled the reader with foreboding, Numero Zero loses that advantage and feels somewhat incomplete as a result.The novel is well written and conveys a sufficient number of ideas to maintain a readers interest but without the sense of fascination that The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum provoked in me, with their breathtaking complexity and endless arcana. Numero Uno might entice fans of Eco but if you are new to this wonderful writer, I suggest you begin by reading The Name of the Rose, one of the great novels of the last century.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Worthy of Eco but minimalist By Phelps Gates I write as an Eco fan who was greatly taken with Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, the Prague Cemetery, etc., and I was looking forward to Numero Zero.Basically, I was not disappointed. Here is another conspiracy, complete with red herrings, witty dialogue, and interwoven historical and literary elements. Numero Zero is funny, entertaining, intriguing, and thought-provoking. The central plot, about the attempt to create a non-newsy newspaper, seems deliciously absurd given today's media environment, and bizarre enough to spark suspicions of ulterior motives. The book works as mystery and comedy.But it is less successful at convincing this reader that its characters are fully human -- they are underdeveloped. Indeed, at 163 pages, Numero Uno is a fraction the length of other Eco novels and has the impact of a short story. Perhaps Eco is tiring of the efforts in churning out big, convoluted best-sellers? I wished the book had been longer, with more plot and less talking about plot. A bit of a back-handed compliment to be sure; Eco fans will like Numero Uno even as we wish there were more to it.Addendum: The above review was written by my husband, a big Eco fan. I would agree with everything, except that (as a lukewarm Eco fan) I tended to get bogged down in his tomes (I eventually lost interest in why those monks were dying!). So this book seemed like just the right length, and a good introduction to the author.
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