Underworld

From the National Book Award-winning author of "White Noise" and "Libra" comes this 1997 tour-de-force novel. Gradually revealing his two central protagonists, Nick Shay, a "waste analyst," and Klara Sax, a renowned artist, who had a brief affair in the Bronx in 1952, DeLillo maps the inner landscape of the Cold War, and in a mesmerizing interplay of events both public and private, illuminates both our past and the nature of memory itself. 832p.