Falling Man, Don DeLillo’s magnificent, haunting novel about September 11, begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the altered lives of a few New Yorkers.

First there is Keith, a lawyer who walks out of the rubble and back into the world of his estranged wife, Lianne, and their young son, Justin. In the weeks and months after that day, Lianne probes Keith’s moods, tries to reconcile two versions of her shadowy husband. Justin turns furtive, speaks in monosyllables and stands at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss and grief, emotional landscapes reconfigured by the enormous force of history.

DeLillo’s love of New York – its pluck and verve, the history it carries, the sudden intimacies of strangers on its streets – makes Falling Man one of his most resonant novels, heartbreaking and beautiful.

唐·德裏羅Don Delillo(1936— )　美國著名後現代小說傢，齣生於紐約意大利移民傢庭。大學畢業後，他曾在奧美廣告公司做過五年廣告文案。自1971年齣版第一部小說《美國的傳說》以來，德裏羅已齣版十餘部長篇小說和四本劇作，發錶諸多短篇小說和散文，代錶作品包括《白噪音》、《地下世界》、《名字》、《天秤星座》等。他曾獲得美國全國圖書奬、福剋納筆會奬、耶路撒冷奬等眾多奬項，被認為是四位同時代最重要的美國作傢之一。

德裏羅的創作題材十分廣泛，多數作品以反映後工業時代的美國社會和生活為主，尤為關注美國的大眾媒體、消費文化、意識形態等對人的行為、思想、心理和情感等各方麵的影響。