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The names

'Brilliant ... a powerful, haunting book.'- Michael Wood: 'Almost every page of The Names gives evidence of its author's brilliance and originality.'- Gene Lyons: 'Exceptional--a startling and potent work of fiction.' -- Arthur J. Sabatini.

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  • "Set in Greece, the Mideast and India, this story concerns a series of cult murders, an expatriate American's quest, and language itself."
  • "In an expatriate's world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore."
  • "'Brilliant ... a powerful, haunting book.'- Michael Wood: 'Almost every page of The Names gives evidence of its author's brilliance and originality.'- Gene Lyons: 'Exceptional--a startling and potent work of fiction.' -- Arthur J. Sabatini."@en
  • "Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works."
  • "Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. " The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."-- Chicago Sun-Times "DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."-- Village Voice Literary Supplement "DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."-- New York Times."@en

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  • "Translations"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Los nombres"@es
  • "Los nombres"
  • "Os nomes"
  • "Os nomes"@pt
  • "The names"@en
  • "The names"
  • "Names <portug.&gt"
  • "The names. [Novel]"
  • "I nomi"@it
  • "I nomi"
  • "Ta onomata"
  • "Les noms : roman"
  • "Nazwy"@pl
  • "Los Nombres"
  • "Die Namen Roman"
  • "Les noms"
  • "Les Noms : roman"
  • "The Names"
  • "The Names"@en
  • "Die Namen : Roman"
  • "De namen"
  • "The names : [a novel]"
  • "Os Nomes"
  • "Imena"

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