Don DeLillo will have something to say this November about fear and isolation...
'An apocalyptic novel for our times' – Guardian
'Horrifyingly resonant' – Observer
Superbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game is about it start. The missing guests' flight from Paris should have landed by now.
Suddenly, screens go blank. Phones are dead. Is this the end of civilization? All anybody can do is wait.
From one of America’s greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes.
'The Silence is Don DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff' – Spectator
"An apocalyptic novel for our times" - Guardian, Book of the Week
"The Silence is a horrifyingly resonant book" - Observer
"Slim and timely" - New Statesman
"
[DeLillo] is our laureate of paranoia and dread . . . [The Silence] is a pristine disaster novel . . . his best writing
here reminds us that, as he puts it . . . “Life can get so interesting that we forget to be afraid”
" - New York Times
"
DeLillo’s mastery of the fragmented nature of spoken language is displayed in these paranoiac
blurts, which every years seem less paranoiac . . . [a] brilliant, brief tale
" - TLS
"DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste" - Guardian
"Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can" - Daily Telegraph
"The Silence is DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff" - Spectator
