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Best books to read after Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo's Falling Man is his quiet, elegiac 9/11 novel — a survivor of the World Trade Center attacks, his wife, and the months of private aftermath. These recommendations extend the experience through DeLillo's other major novels and through literary fiction about September 11 and its aftermath.
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
DeLillo's breakthrough novel — if Falling Man is your first DeLillo, White Noise is the natural next read: funnier and more satirical, but exploring the same American anxiety about death, media, and the end of certainty.
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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
DeLillo's most ambitious novel — 827 pages from the 1951 Shot Heard Round the World to the 1990s; the panoramic counterpart to Falling Man's intimate concentration.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Foer's 9/11 novel about a nine-year-old boy searching New York for the lock that fits a key his father left behind — the most emotionally direct 9/11 novel, very different in register from Falling Man's restraint.
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
McEwan's one-day London novel set during the Iraq War march — the British contemporary parallel to Falling Man: a professional trying to live his normal life while historical catastrophe reshapes the world around him.
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
Three New York friends in the year before and after September 11 — the literary novel most directly comparable to Falling Man in its examination of a particular milieu (Manhattan intellectual culture) before and after the attacks.
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Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
A Dutch financier in post-9/11 New York, playing cricket in Staten Island — one of the most critically praised 9/11 novels, elegant and melancholy in the register Falling Man inhabits.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
A Pakistani man recounts his time in New York and his disillusionment with American finance — the 9/11 novel that most directly asks what happens to the person the United States turns away from.
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Mao II
by Don DeLillo
DeLillo's 1991 novel about terrorism, novelists, and the imagination — the direct precursor to Falling Man's concerns, written a decade before the attacks with an uncanny prescience.
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