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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.

Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical...

In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory 'satisfaction' than...

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...