The memoir that Simei wants Colonna to write would tell the story of a newspaper of great integrity getting shut down due to pressures from a corrupt society. The title of the book refers to the dummy issues of the newspaper that they will be producing to showcase their work as a new kind of newspaper one that will report not what has happened, but what will happen tomorrow. Simei is setting up a new paper, Domani (Tomorrow), which is to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As such, it is perhaps one of his most accessible books and something that I was able to enjoy in one sitting.Ĭolonna, an over-the-hill writer and journalist, and a self-confessed loser, is offered the opportunity to ghostwrite a memoir for the newspaper editor, Simei. Umberto Eco’s final novel is a fast-paced historical thriller centred on a newspaper that will never be published, and a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.Īt just under 200 pages, Numero Zero is the shortest of Eco’s novels by a considerable margin.
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