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The Silence
First published 2020
About the book
Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them after what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in north-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world.
About the author
All 6 books by Don DeLilloSubjects
Catalogue record
- Author
- DeLillo, Don, 1936–
- Statement
- The Silence / Don DeLillo.
Book facts
- Pages
- 117
- ISBN
- 978-1-9821-6455-3
4 more ISBNs
- 978-1-9821-6456-0
- 978-1-9821-6457-7
- 978-1-5290-5709-6
- 978-1-5290-5710-2
- Records
- Open Library Wikidata
