# The Silence - Hardcover

by **Don Delillo** (Author)

**From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.**

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 from 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. Never have DeLillo's prescience, imagination, and language been more illuminating and essential.

"Mysterious...Unexpectedly touching... DeLillo offers\] consolation simply by enacting so well the mystery and awe of the real world." **--Joshua Ferris, _The New York Times Book Review_**

"DeLillo has\] almost Dayglo powers as a writer." --**Michiko Kakutani, _The New York Times_**

"Brilliant and astonishing...a masterpiece...manages to renew DeLillo's longstanding obsessions while also striking deeply and swiftly at the reader's emotions...The effect is transcendent." **\--Charles Finch, _Chicago Tribune_**

"Daring... provocative... exquisite...captures the swelling fears of our age."  
**\--Ron Charles, _The_ _Washington Post_**

### Author Biography

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including _White Noise_, which was made into a Netflix film, _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.

**Number of Pages:** 128

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** October 20, 2020

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