Description

Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.

Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of eleven novels, including White Noise, Libra, and Mao II, and has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Praise for Underworld…

Malcolm JonesNewsweekThere's pleasure on evey page of this pitch-perfect evocation of a half-century.

Joan MellenThe Baltimore SunUnderworld is a page-turner and a masterwork, a sublime novel and a delight to read.

Greg BurkmanThe Seattle TimesMasterpieces teach you how to read them, and Underworld is no exception....Anastonishing piece of prose and a benchmark of twentieth-century fiction, Underworld is stunnigly beautiful in its generous humanity, locating the true power of history not in tyranny, collective political movements of history books, but inside each of us.

Salman RushdieUnderworld is magnificent book by an American master.

Michael OndaatjeThe book is an aria and a wolf-whistle of our half century. It contains multitudes.