唐•德里罗（1936— ）

美国当代最伟大的作家之一，诺贝尔文学奖热门候选人，哈罗德•布鲁姆所推崇的“美国当代最重要的四位作家之一”。

以“代表美国文学最高水准”的创作，赢得了美国全国图书奖、美国笔会/索尔•贝娄文学终生成就奖、耶路撒冷奖等十多种重量级文学奖项。

创作经典：《名字》（1982）、《白噪音》（1985）、《天秤星座》（1988）、《地下世界》（1997）、《大都会》（2003）。

近年新作：《欧米伽点》（2010）、《天使埃斯梅拉达：九个故事》（2011）。

'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the world as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, this substantial novel is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. 'Another formidable construction by a very distinctive writer' Evening Standard 'A pared, intense anti-parable ...so rigorous and so precise' Observer 'Impossible to forget' Sunday Times