Summary

A sudden landing of a plane on the Paris-New York flight, an inexplicable blackout of the television screen, and everything loses its logical flow. In an apartment in Manhattan, five people struggle to understand what exactly the unprecedented events unfolding around them mean.

Don DeLillo began writing "The Silence" in 2018; however, the atmosphere of the work echoes the desolation that prevailed on the streets of America, and beyond, during the Covid-19 control measures. Perhaps the greatest living American author draws us into the dark cave of fears generated by science, technology, and their control by powers unknown to man. His predictions for society's response sound more prophetic than ever.

Notes Introductory point: Zoe Bella-Armao