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"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." —The New Yorker "His most spectacularly inventive novel." —The New York Times One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he...

L'affascinante David Bell incarna la realizzazione del sogno americano. Nonostante sia poco piú che ventenne è già manager di una grande rete televisiva. All'apice del successo il giovane trova però davanti a sé un vuoto insopportabile che lo spinge ad allontanarsi da Manhattan per intraprendere un viaggio nel cuore dell'America, a bordo di un vecchio camper e con la cinepresa sempre a disposizione, accompagnato da tre stravaganti soggetti.

Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall - with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one wants it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption, and no price is too high.

Aprile 2000. Mattina. Sull'East River. Il giovane miliardario Eric Packer esce dal suo lussuoso attico a tre piani e sale sulla limousine bianca per andare a tagliarsi i capelli a Hell's Kitchen. È l'inizio di un viaggio lungo un giorno che lo porterà ad attraversare Manhattan per andare incontro al proprio destino. Durante il tragitto Packer, ossessionato da una folle scommessa finanziaria contro lo yen e da un'oscura "minaccia attendibile" alla propria incolumità, incontra gli uomini e le donne della sua vita sullo sfondo di scenari erotici, o tragici, o enigmatici.

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 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 the form...

From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day—now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about...

Don DeLillo er af en af vor tids største forfattere. Hans første novellesamling indeholder ni noveller, der er skrevet mellem 1979 og 2011, og som spejler det amerikanske samfund på godt og ondt og berører emner, der har optaget det amerikanske samfund i perioden. De øvrige noveller er: "Skaberværk", "Menneskelige øjeblikke i Tredje Verdenskrig", "Løberen", "Elfenbensakrobaten", "Baader-Meinhof", "Midnat hos Dostojevskij", "Hammer og segl", "Den forsultne".

Die Welt im Ausnahmezustand - Don DeLillos neuer Roman ist das (Hör-)Buch der Stunde. Nur wenige Wochen vor Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie schloss Don DeLillo die Arbeit an seinem neuen Roman ab. Ein Werk mit verblüffenden Parallelen zur aktuellen Situation in der Welt. Ein literarischer Meilenstein. New York im Jahr 2022: Es ist der Super Bowl Sunday. In einer Wohnung auf der East Side von Manhattan wollen fünf Menschen gemeinsam das Finale der American Football-League im Fernsehen anschauen.

In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, 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...

Fin dalla sua prima apparizione nel 1985, "Rumore bianco" di Don DeLillo si è imposto come un vero e proprio romanzo di culto, apice del postmoderno americano: non a caso il successo di critica e di pubblico culminò con la vittoria del National Book Award. Meno scontato era prevedere che nei decenni successivi "Rumore bianco" avrebbe continuato a essere la piú precisa, divertente e inquietante mappa per orientarsi nei tempi nuovi e sconosciuti in cui la civiltà occidentale stava entrando.

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) literary short stories from Don DeLillo, the National Book Award-winning author of Underworld and Falling Man. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a...

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...

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David’s world is made up of the images that flicker across America’s screens, the fantasies that enthrall...

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In mid-tour he bolts from his band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the...

A New York Times Notable Book and New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a...

The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence. At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the...

"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." —Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction...

"Zero K" er Don DeLillos første roman i ti år og er en mesterlig skildring af livet og kampen mod døden. Jeffrey Lockharts far, Ross, er mangemilliardær og gift med den yngre kvinde, Artis, som er uhelbredeligt syg. Ross er hovedinvestor i et afsides liggende og hemmeligt kompleks, hvor alvorligt syge mennesker fryses ned i håbet om, at de kan vende tilbage til livet den dag, hvor medicinske fremskridt ville kunne kurere dem.

Die Karibik, Griechenland, Manhattan, ein Gefängnis für Witschaftsdelikte und das Weltall sind die Schauplätze...

Manhattan, 2022. Una coppia è in volo verso New York, di ritorno dalla loro prima vacanza dopo la pandemia. In città, in un appartamento nell'East Side, li aspettano tre loro amici per guardare tutti insieme il Super Bowl: una professoressa di fisica in pensione, suo marito e un suo ex studente geniale e visionario. Una scena come tante, un quadro di ritrovata normalità. Poi, all'improvviso, non annunciato, misterioso: il silenzio. Tutta la tecnologia digitale ammutolisce. Internet tace. I tweet, i post, i bot spariscono.