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Zusatztext In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal. Informationen zum Autor Don DeLillo is the author of numerous novels including White Noise , Libra , Underworld , Falling Man and Zero K . He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection, The Angel Esmeralda , was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Klappentext 'One of America's greatest living writers' Observer 'DeLillo is one of urban life's most perceptive chroniclers' Independent 'No writer has been as prescient and eerily prophetic about twenty-first-century America as Don DeLillo' New York Times 'Extravagant literary gifts, formidable intellect and unflinching artistic gaze . . . a genuine master' Irish independent Vorwort Don DeLillo completed The Silence just weeks before the devastating advent of Covid-19. This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event. Zusammenfassung Don DeLillo completed The Silence just weeks before the devastating advent of Covid-19. This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event.
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An apocalyptic novel for our times Guardian, Book of the Week
