Издания и произведения

"Searing, profoundly unsettling. An unforgettable novel" - "Sunday Times". "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 by loss, by grief and by the enormous force of history. From these intimate portraits, DeLillo shifts to an extrapolated vision: he charts the way the events have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. This is an unforgettable novel, at once cathartic and beautiful and…

Falling Man, Don DeLillo's magnificent, haunting novel about September 11, begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the altered lives of a few New Yorkers. First there is Keith, a lawyer who walks out of the rubble and back into the world of his estranged wife, Lianne, and their young son, Justin. In the weeks and months after that day, Lianne probes Keith's moods, tries to reconcile two versions of her shadowy husband. Justin turns furtive, speaks in monosyllables and stands at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss and grief,…

Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of that day in the lives of members of a fractured family. Intimate and brave, it is a resonant, compassionate exploration of reconfigured emotions, jolted memories, and irrevocably altered perceptions of the world. Формат: 11 см х 18 см.

Трагедия 11 сентября 2001 года, увиденная глазами разных героев и в разных ракурсах. Клерк, выбирающийся из уже готовой обвалиться башни, террорист-угонщик, готовящийся к последнему полету, – и еще несколько персонажей, так или иначе вовлекаемых в трагические события. Впрочем, это, по сути, не столько рассказ о трагедии, сколько привычный американский “семейный” роман, в котором плавное течение жизни разбивается внешним вторжением, отчего линейное повествование рассыпается на структурно перемешивающиеся фрагменты.