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Mao II

Mao II Don DeLillo (in conjunction with the Wallace Literary Agency)
Pub date 20th June 1991
Original publisher Scribner (US)
International publishers Lindhart & Ringhof (Denmark), Actes Sud (France), Kiepenheur & Witsch (Germany), Einaudi (Italy),  Seix Barral (Spain), Modernista (Sweden)

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. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

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