Mao II — Don Delillo

Winner of the PEN Faulkner Award Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers Bill Gray a famous reclusive novelist emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut As Bill enters the world of political violence a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms Bill s dangerous passage leaves two people stranded his brilliant fixated assistant Scott and the strange young woman who is Scott s lover and Bill s An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images novelists and terrorists the mass mind and the arch individualist Mao II explores a world in which the novelist s power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb makers and gunmen Tanıtım Bülteninden