Numero Zero

A triumph * Scotland on Sunday *
A smart, modern mystery – Justine Carbery * Independent *
A novel for our times * Irish News *
Brims with exuberant inventiveness – Terry Eagleton * Times Literary Supplement *
Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment – Anthony Cummins * Guardian *
Cynical but heartfelt, utterly flippant yet deadly serious – Mark Sanderson * The Times *
A conte philosophique on our tendency to see conspiracies everywhere… in the end, a damning confirmation of the long moral and civic decline of Italy over the past fifty years * Il Sole 24 Ore *
Eco’s novel on post-War Italy inevitably turns into a detective story. But it’s one without a culprit: like all the great detective stories of [Italy’s] recent history…[which] Eco revisits at high speed in this fast-paced, frequently entertaining novel * La Stampa *
Practically a manual on today’s media – Roberto Saviano * L’Espresso *
A kaleidoscopic, playful, yet deadly serious satire * Catholic Herald *

Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

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