Don DeLillo
1) White noise
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The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community. Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications which include murder.
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Now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America's most celebrated writers.
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments— are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset...
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments— are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset...
3) Underworld
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A 1950s teenage hood from New York is transformed by the Jesuits into a respectable man, managing hazardous waste. A portrait of the decade from the viewpoint of the garbage industry.
4) Libra
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From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in...
In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in...
5) Americana
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A young television executive takes to the road in the 1960s with a movie camera to capture his own past in a "cinema verite" documentary. Within this framework, he delivers his observations on the influence of film, modern corporate life, young marriage, New York City and hipness.
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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...
7) Mao II
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual from "one of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times)
Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event...
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual from "one of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times)
Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event...
8) The names
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In an expatriate's world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore.
9) Players
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In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists...
10) Running dog
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DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to "star" Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller's narrative pace, Running...
11) Zero K: a novel
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The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a deeply remote and secret compound where death is controlled...
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Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws...
15) Die Stille
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New York im Jahr 2022: Auf der East Side von Manhattan wollen sich fünf Menschen gemeinsam das Finale der American Football-League im Fernsehen ansehen. Eine emeritierte Physikprofessorin, ihr Mann und ihr früherer Student warten auf die Ankunft eines befreundeten Paares, das gerade auf dem Rückflug von Paris ist. Die Gespräche drehen sich um Einsteins Relativitätstheorie, ein Überwachungsteleskop im nördlichen Chile, eine besondere Bourbon...
16) Der Omega Punkt
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Ein tief verstörendes, brillantes Werk über Verlust und Verschwinden
Irgendwo "südlich von Nirgendwo" lebt Richard Elster in einem einsam gelegenen Haus und denkt über Raum und Zeit nach. Zwei Jahre lang hatte er der amerikanischen Regierung als geheimer Berater für den Irakkrieg gedient und sich dann in die Wüste zurückgezogen. Dort besucht ihn ein junger Filmemacher, der ihn für eine Dokumentation gewinnen möchte.
Auch Elsters Tochter...
17) Null K
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Eine Meditation über den Tod und eine Liebeserklärung an das Leben
Jeffrey Lockharts Vater Ross, ein Milliardär in seinen Sechzigern, versucht das Leben seiner jüngeren, schwerkranken Frau Artis zu retten. Zu dem Zweck bringt er sie in ein Forschungszentrum, in dem menschliches Leben durch Einfrieren verlängert werden soll, bis eines fernen Tages biomedizinische Fortschritte es erlauben, unrettbare Fälle von heute doch noch zu heilen und ihnen...
18) Cosmopolis
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Die Geschichte eines Tages im Leben des Finanzjongleurs Eric Packer als Allegorie auf die zerstörerische Kraft des Kapitalismus.
New York an einem Tag im April 2000. Eric Packer, erfolgreicher und steinreicher Vermögensverwalter, fährt in seiner Stretchlimosine durch die Stadt. Er hat, wie meistens, nicht geschlafen, das Leben langweilt ihn. Auf der Fahrt durch Manhattan steckt er ständig im Stau: der Präsident ist in der Stadt, der Beerdigungszug...
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Geschichten, geschrieben zwischen 1979 und 2011, Chronik und Prophezeiung: Die Karibik, Griechenland, Manhattan, ein Gefängnis für Wirtschaftsdelikte und das Weltall sind die Schauplätze. Unsere paranoide Gegenwart durch das Brennglas eines Visionärs.
Es gibt keinen Dichter des US amerikanischen Sprachraums, der mit solcher Lakonie so viel Spannung und Geheimnis aufbauen kann. Beim Hören dieser Geschichten verändert sich die literarische Erdoberfläche,...
20) Falling Man
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Mit seiner sprachlichen Kunst und seiner packenden Erzählweise gelingt es Don DeLillo in "Falling Man", das scheinbar Unsagbare überzeugend in Worte zu fassen.
New York in Asche und Rauch am 11. September. In eindringlichen Bildern zeichnet DeLillo den Ablauf der Ereignisse nach: von den Tätern zu den Opfern, von Hamburg nach New York. In unvergesslichen Szenen entsteht das Leben einer Familie nach der Katastrophe, die berührende Geschichte einer...