The Silence (Paperback)

An apocalyptic novel for our times - Guardian, Book of the Week

The Silence is a horrifyingly resonant book - Observer

Slim and timely - New Statesman

[DeLillo] is our laureate of paranoia and dread . . . [The Silence] is a pristine disaster novel . . . his best writinghere reminds us that, as he puts it . . . “Life can get so interesting that we forget to be afraid” - Dwight Garner, New York Times

DeLillo’s mastery of the fragmented nature of spoken language is displayed in these paranoiacblurts, which every years seem less paranoiac . . . [a] brilliant, brief tale - J Michael Lennon, TLS

DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste - Anne Enright, Guardian

Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can - Daily Telegraph

The Silence is DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff - Spectator

A swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. The Silence is prime DeLillo. - Joy Williams

In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal. - Rachel Kushner