The Silence: DeLillo returns with another snapshot of a glazed, automated world
The veteran American writer is on familiar ground with his latest novel, but still displays his mastery of the form
FICTION
The Silence
By Don DeLillo
Picador, €16.99
The fact that Don DeLillo’s new book is about society being irrevocably disrupted makes it sound timely, even prescient. But this is definitely a pre-Covid-19 novel.
While our “new normal” sees us more reliant on technology than ever, the characters in The Silence inhabit a world where all technology abruptly cuts out. Plunged into darkness on Super Bowl Sunday, five New York inhabitants try to make sense ...