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The Names (1982) is the seventh novel of American novelist Don DeLillo. The work, set mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious "language cult" that is behind a number of unexplained murders.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Pushing the logic of hippiedom to its extreme, The Names suggests an end point - a nihilistic cult whose reason for being is to murder people whose initials correspond to the names of their locations.
17 de jul. de 1989 · The Names. Paperback – July 17, 1989. by Don Delillo (Author) 4.1 282 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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).
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 ...
All the Names (Portuguese: Todos os nomes) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago, the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was written in 1997, and Margaret Jull Costa's 1999 English translation of it won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Don DeLillo: The Names. While all of DeLillo’s novels are worth reading, it is with this novel that DeLillo ceases to be a good novelist and becomes a great one. The novel is set in Greece and in the Middle East and concerns the narrator, his wife Kathryn, an archeologist and their nine-year old son, a novelist.
James Axton is an American free-lance writer working out of Athens as a part-time risk analyst for a shadowy conglomerate selling political-risk insurance, mostly to large companies fearful of having a foreign base of operations collapse on them (just as Iran is doing right then, in the novel).
