Underworld

地下世界》是當代美國社會最深刻的講述者唐•德里羅巔峰之作《地下世界》透析美國現代社會，揭秘操縱歷史的暗世界《地下世界》一部當代文學巨著，一部全美暢銷書在這部堪稱冷戰史詩的小說《地下世界》中，垃圾分析師尼克目睹被人類拋棄的廢物——從紙屑到核廢料——構成了一個地下世界，它在暗中積累、擴張，進而吞噬著現實世界的生活……一架報廢轟炸機，在這個被遺棄在地下世界的殺人機器上，居然有人噴塗了“長腿美女薩莉”的形象。這個世俗的性感美女似乎有某種對抗死亡的力量。《地下世界》講述20世紀後五十年的美國故事。它以攝像機般極富畫面感的語言，捕捉現代社會的荒誕和痛楚，探尋存在於個體身上的歷史的真實力量。透過德裡羅的雄健筆觸，讀者依稀聽到其中先知般的訴說。本書中文書介出自《地下世界》译林出版With an introduction by Rachel KushnerHe speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.It's a vast and sprawling crowd that comes together to watch the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League Final, and when Bobby Thomson hits the Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants, ripples are formed in the heavy undercurrent of time. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, another historic shot is fired: the USSR's second atomic detonation. And so Underworld follows the threads that link a symphonic cast of characters: men and women, together and apart, whose search for meaning, survival and connection will spill out over decades.Underworld is Don DeLillo's masterpiece, a novel of intense ambition and soaring architecture, and a panoramic vision of America set against the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is awe-inspiring storytelling and an undisputed modern classic.'A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph'A rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the rest' William Boyd, Observer