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»Att det tagit nästan 45 år för Don DeLillos debutroman från 1971 att komma på svenska är ingenting mindre än ett mysterium.« | Niklas Kvarnström, Sydsvenskan »Amerikana består av nästan enbart knivskarpa meningar. Den insisterar på en autenticite...

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# Vinnare av U.S. National Book Award for Fiction # På Time Magazines lista över de 100 bästa engelsspråkiga romanerna från 1923-2005. » Vitt brus från 1985 är Don DeLillos mest kända och älskade roman. Om konsumism, dödsskräck och kärlek. Det är ...

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»Den här romanen är en skönhet. Det är svårt att hitta en lika djärv vision och en lika vältalig och moraliskt fokuserad röst i amerikansk litteratur.« | Thomas Pynchon Mao II börjar med ett massbröllop på Yankee Stadium. 6.500 par gifter sig. Det...

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A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love,...

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Winner of the National Book Award - a "eerie, brilliant, and touching" (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technologyJack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America ...

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»Att det tagit nästan 45 år för Don DeLillos debutroman från 1971 att komma på svenska är ingenting mindre än ett mysterium.« NIKLAS KVARNSTRÖM, SYDSVENSKAN »Redan i debuten är Don DeLillo i högform. Med iskall och bitter humor avtäcker han det am...

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Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in ...

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»En skrämmande och fascinerande rekonstruktion av århundradets mord, och samtidigt en roman som fungerar som en thriller. Mästerligt.« SVENSKA DAGBLADET »När Don DeLillo slutligen får hämta sitt Nobelpris kommer Vågen att lyftas fram som ett av ha...

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»Ingen skriver bättre prosa än Don DeLillo.« | THE NEW YORK TIMES »Bekräftar DeLillos status som en modern mästare och litterär provokatör.« | PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Mao II börjar med ett massbröllop på Yankee Stadium. 6.500 par gifter sig. Det är äkte...

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'An apocalyptic novel for our times' - Guardian 'Horrifyingly resonant' - Observer Superbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game is about it start. The missing guests' flight f...

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of ...

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The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself ...

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År 1951 spelas en basebollmatch i New York som skulle bli legendarisk. På hedersläktaren sitter Frank Sinatra och FBI-chefen J. Edgar Hoover. Under matchens gång får han besked om att ryssarna genomfört sin första atombombsprängning. Det fantastis...

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David Bell, vit amerikan, man, snygg, med karriär inom TV, på alla sätt en människa på maktens sida, tröttnar på allt och kastar sig i väg på en roadtrip genom Nordamerika, på jakt efter något som helst verkligt att förmedla. Vad som var tänkt att...

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David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall view...

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From a National Book Award-winning author comes this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an experimental drug, a man is forced to question everything about his life.

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Now a major new Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We man...

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Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk anal...

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Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers. In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed...

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Ostensibly, Don DeLillo's blackly comic second novel, End Zone, is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclea...

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In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex lif...

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"Vi föds utan att ha valt det. Måste vi dö på samma sätt?" På en hemlig plats i Centralasien har miljardären Ross Lockhart skapat en anläggning där svårt sjuka kan frysas ner i hopp om att en dag få återvända till livet. Dit kommer hans ...

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'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuition...

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Now a major new Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta GerwigHow strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We mana...

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Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jon...

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Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot ...

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Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his onl...

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An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. In this powerful, eerily convincing...

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# Vinnare av U.S. National Book Award for Fiction # På Time Magazines lista över de 100 bästa engelsspråkiga romanerna från 1923-2005. » Vitt brus från 1985 är Don DeLillos mest kända och älskade roman. Om konsumism, dödsskräck och kärlek. Det är ...

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Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murde...

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