Don DeLillo completed The Silence just weeks before the devastating advent of Covid-19. This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event.

'One of America's greatest living writers' Observer
'DeLillo is one of urban life's most perceptive chroniclers' Independent
'No writer has been as prescient and eerily prophetic about twenty-first-century America as Don DeLillo' New York Times
'Extravagant literary gifts, formidable intellect and unflinching artistic gaze . . . a genuine master' Irish independent

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.