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Die Welt im Ausnahmezustand - Don DeLillos neuer Roman ist das (Hör-)Buch der Stunde. Nur wenige Wochen vor Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie schloss Don DeLillo die Arbeit an seinem neuen Roman ab. Ein Werk mit verblüffenden Parallelen zur aktuellen Situation in der Welt. Ein literarischer Meilenstein. New York im Jahr 2022: Es ist der Super Bowl Sunday. In einer Wohnung auf der East Side von Manhattan wollen fünf Menschen gemeinsam das Finale der American Football-League im Fernsehen anschauen.

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 a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to.

On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain has declared war, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist, escaping from the Nazis; a murderer under FBI escort; a young wife running away from a domineering husband; and a handsome, unscrupulous thief.

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens, and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.