The Silence

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 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 The Silence is DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff * Spectator * Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can * Daily Telegraph * DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste -- Anne Enright * Guardian * 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 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 * Slim and timely * New Statesman * The Silence is a horrifyingly resonant book * Observer * An apocalyptic novel for our times * Guardian, Book of the Week *