by Don DeLillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806173999
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«Underworld» is the novel by Don DeLillo, published by Einaudi in paperback (885 pages, in Italian).
In 1951, at the Polo Grounds in New York, a boy from Harlem catches the ball of the decisive home run between the Giants and the Dodgers. That ball reappears in the hands of Nick Shay, an executive at a waste management company; with it as a thread, DeLillo composes a fresco of the United States from the Cold War to the fall of the Soviet Union.
With translation by Delfina Vezzoli; the original work was published in 1997. The book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the American Book Award.
Novel suitable for readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the recent history of the United States.
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.
