Numero Zero

Name: Numero Zero
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9781490699172

Author: Umberto Eco

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/03/2015

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Political, Satire

Synopsis

Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco-corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories-and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones. Umberto Eco is the 83-year-old Italian novelist best known for the international bestseller The Name of the Rose, published in 1980. The murder mystery set in a 14th-century monastery was made into a film starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. His other books include several works of literary criticism and the bestselling novels Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino, and his most recent, The Prague Cemetery.

About Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, a philosopher, historian, literary critic and aesthetician. He is the author of the international bestselling novels The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before, as well as three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings and How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. Mr. Eco lives in Milan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu on February 07, 2022

Probabil, romanul cel mai puțin semnificativ al lui Umberto Eco. Nu mi-a plăcut nici la prima lectură (în iulie 2016), nu mi-a plăcut nici acum. M-am întrebat adesea cum se face că un om cu mult bun gust și cu o știință de carte imensă nu-și dă seama că e pe cale să publice un roman precar. Am crezu......more

Goodreads review by Jadranka on February 10, 2017

"Nulti broj" na odličan način prikazuje kako mediji utiču na formiranje javnog mnjenja, i kako se plasiranjem jedne priče lako skreće pažnja javnosti sa drugih, mnogo važnijih tema. Zvuči poznato, zar ne? Naravno, svemu ovome Eko je dodao jednu kafenu kašiku svog opšte poznatog osvrta na teorije zave......more

Goodreads review by Owlseyes on September 24, 2020

(view spoiler)[ Well, I cannot help but to say a few things, in the hope that, though absent, Eco will say something; yes, ...I mean, what would he say of this time of "fake news", Trump as president-elect, ...but above all, about tomorrow's Italy's referendum. I've heard people speaking about "Italy as a lab", whe (hide spoiler)]......more