{"product_id":"9780594682752","title":"Numero Zero","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e#1 Italian bestseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   “Witty and wry . . . It’s hard not to be charmed.” — \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e “One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” — \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e1945, Lake Como.\u003c\/b\u003e Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial.  \u003cb\u003e1992, Milan.\u003c\/b\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.   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” (\u003ci\u003eLe Point, \u003c\/i\u003eFrance), \u003ci\u003eNumero Zero\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a master storyteller.   UMBERTO ECO (1932–2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Prague Cemetery,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInventing the Enemy.\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 was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026996478192,"sku":"9780594682752","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780594682752_p0.jpg?v=1763723565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780594682752","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}