{"product_id":"numero-cero","title":"Número Cero","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNúmero Cero\u003c\/i\u003e, the new novel by Umberto Eco, reveals the dark side of journalism and how our reality is in the hands of those who construct the news\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"Umberto Eco changed our view of books: essential, small, fragile, sometimes criminal, almost always salvational. A master who taught us to intertwine wisdom and play with his astute and playful style, with his amazing inventiveness and accurate lucidity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrene Vallejo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"Losers and self-taught people always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you have to concentrate on a single goal, and you'd better not waste time learning more: the pleasure of erudition is reserved for losers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith these credentials, Colonna, the protagonist of \u003ci\u003eNúmero Cero\u003c\/i\u003e, is introduced to us. In April 1992, at the age of fifty, he receives a strange proposal from a certain Simei: he is to become editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eDomani\u003c\/i\u003e, a newspaper that will anticipate events based on assumptions and a lot of imagination, barely recognizing the limit that separates truth from lies, and blackmailing the highest echelons of power in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe man, who until then has scraped by as a documentalist and, in the words of his ex-wife, is a compulsive loser, accepts the challenge in exchange for a considerable sum of money, and the adventure begins. Gathered in a comfortable office, Colonna and six other colleagues prepare \u003ci\u003eNúmero Cero\u003c\/i\u003e, the advanced edition of the new newspaper, delving into archives that hide the hidden secrets of the CIA, the Vatican, and Mussolini's life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEverything seems to be going smoothly until a body lying in an alley in Milan and a discreet love affair change the destiny of our hero and the way his readers will look at reality, or what is left of it.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Umberto Eco has written a novel that is the communication manual of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003eRoberto Saviano\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eNúmero Cero\u003c\/i\u003e, Umberto Eco writes a fierce parody of journalism and politics.\"\u003cbr\u003eJesús Ceberio, \u003ci\u003eBabelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eco has unleashed his most irreverent and outlandish side and has written a sparkling novel that shows us the inner workings of tabloids, with their gossip and falsehoods.\"\u003cbr\u003eRafael Narbona, \u003ci\u003eEl Cultural de El Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Umberto Eco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536068706552,"sku":"9788466332002","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P33200C.jpg?v=1671633550","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/numero-cero","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}