Numero Zero
Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco; Richard Dixon
Houghton Mifflin
9780544635081
0-544-63508-6
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 blackmailandmud slinging,rather.
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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,andevents 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 Beethovens Seventh. And then a dead body that suddenly appears in a back alley in Milan. Setin 1992 and foreshadowingthe mysteries and follies of the following twenty years,Numero Zerois ascintillating take on our times from the best-selling author ofThe Name of the RoseandFoucault's Pendulum.
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