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»Wir werden geboren, ohne eine Wahl zu haben. Müssen wir deswegen auf gleiche Art sterben?« »Null Grad Kelvin« ist DeLillos klügster, humorvollster und bewegendster Roman seit Jahren, eine große Vater-Sohn-Geschichte, eine Meditation über den Tod und die Ewigkeit und eine Liebeserklärung an das Leben. Ross Lockhart ist ein Milliardär in den Sechzigern mit einer viel jüngeren Frau, Artis Martineau, die schwer krank ist. Er ist Großinvestor ei...

Der erste, bahnbrechende Roman von Don DeLillo - jetzt neu aufgelegt Mit achtundzwanzig Jahren hat der gut aussehende David Bell bereits Karriere in einer New Yorker Fernsehproduktionsfirma gemacht. Alle Skandale und Intrigen hat er zu seinen Gunsten zu nutzen verstanden. Bell wechselt sowohl Prinzipien als auch die eigene Identität, wie es die jeweilige Situation erfordert, und schützt sich selbst mit seinem ausgeprägten Zynismus. Doch eines...

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 Erdob...

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 Jessi...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary cl...

We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?'Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, who happens to be the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled. There, bodies are carefully preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of t...

In this essential work of fiction, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships and reconfigured America's perceptions of the world, in a novel that is beautiful, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, redemptive.

A 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 billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodi...

Un giovanissimo miliardario vive in un attico su tre piani, colleziona quadri e squali, ha una moglie di prestigio e patrimonio adeguati. Una splendida mattina, spinto da una strana inquietudine, sale in limousine e dice all'autista di portarlo dall'altra parte di Manhattan, nel West Side per "tagliarsi i capelli". Inizia così un viaggio che è una metafora, un attraversamento da est a ovest del cuore del mondo in una sola giornata, un percorso...

Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the globe as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Buc...

Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the globe as one of the greatest writers of his generation. DeL...

Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the globe as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Ost...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of "White Noise" and "Underworld" comes a spare, seductive, novel about marriage, loneliness, and the nature of creativity. Widow Lauren Hardke encounters a strange man possessed of knowledge of her life, and accompanies him on an extraordinary exploration of time, love, and human perception.

A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence.This is Don DeLillo's second play, and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology.This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we d...

Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

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In una casa isolata nel deserto due uomini discutono della natura del tempo e del significato dell'agire umano nella storia. Discutono e aspettano. Uno, Richard Elster, è un anziano intellettuale per niente pentito dell'appoggio che ha dato al governo nella guerra in Iraq, l'altro è un giovane regista che vorrebbe girare un documentario su di lui. L'improvvisa scomparsa della figlia di Elster li costringe a interrompere discussioni e attese e ...

Don Delillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011. 'Robustly brilliant...This collection will provide manna to his admirers and serve as the perfect introduction for those who have yet to discover his obsessive world' "Daily Telegraph

Deze eerste bundel van Don Delillo omvat negen verhalen uit de periode 1979-2011, die samen een staalkaart van het oeuvre van deze grote schrijver vormen. Een van de bepalende thema's is de angst voor controleverlies waaraan Delillo's personages ten prooi zijn. Paradoxaal genoeg belanden ze juist daardoor in situaties met een uiterst onzekere afloop of geven ze zich over aan fantasieën die een heel eigen leven gaan leiden: een vrouw leeft in a...