New Umberto Eco Novel,
‘Numero Zero,’ Coming This Fall
THE
NEW YORK TIMES
March 9, 2015
Umberto Eco, the Italian writer and philosopher best
known for novels like “Foucault’s Pendulum” and “The Name of the Rose,” will
publish a new novel in the United States this fall, with Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt.
The
satirical novel, “Numero Zero,” takes place in Milan in 1992 and tells the
story of a struggling ghostwriter. The ghostwriter and narrator, Colonna, gets
hired to write the memoir of a journalist who works at a shady publication
called “Domani,” which is financed by a media baron who resembles Silvio
Berlusconi. In the process, Colonna gets pulled into a world of corruption and
conspiracy theories, including a plot involving the C.I.A. and the corpse of
Mussolini’s body double.
“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,” Bruce
Nichols, General Interest Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, said in a
statement.
“Numero
Zero,” which comes out here on Nov. 3, is already a best seller in Italy, and
foreign rights have sold in 34 countries.
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