The Silence

Author: Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo will have something to say this November about fear and isolation...

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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Don DeLillo will have something to say this November about fear and isolation...

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' - GuardianFrom one of America's greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes.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 it wait.

Critic Reviews

“A swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. The Silence is prime DeLillo.”

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”

-- Dwight Garner 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

-- J Michael Lennon TLS
DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste -- Anne Enright Guardian
Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can Daily Telegraph
The Silence is DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff Spectator
A swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. The Silence is prime DeLillo. -- Joy Williams
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. -- Rachel Kushner

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of numerous novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written several plays.