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 writing
here 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 paranoiac
blurts, 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