by Don Delillo · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806233990
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«L'uomo che cade» is the novel by Don DeLillo published by Einaudi in paperback in 2017 (200 pages, in Italian).
Keith Neudecker survives the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and returns to his estranged wife and his son Justin. The novel follows his bond with another survivor and the figure of an artist who imitates in his jumps the fall from the towers, in a portrait of the trauma and fear of the new America.
The novel was originally published in English as «Falling Man» in 2007; the Italian translation is by Matteo Colombo and the edition belongs to the Einaudi tascabili. Scrittori collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in 9/11, memory and the aftermath of trauma.
Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics and sports.
