2001年9月11日，纽约曼哈顿，39岁的律师基思历尽艰辛，从位于世贸中心大楼的办公室里逃出。在遮天蔽日的尘土中，他重新走向已经分居的妻子丽昂和年幼的儿子贾斯廷的世界。在其后的日子里，丽昂摸索着基思的思绪，试图将他与以前那个形象重叠起来。而灾难之后的基思却再也无法回到从前，转而让自己沉溺于扑克。和许多纽约人一样，他们的生活从此满是失落与悲伤，情感世界因巨大的历史力量而面目全非。
在《坠落的人》中，唐·德里罗以其复杂而睿智的语句将宏大的历史事件在个人层面上展现出来，无比精准地刻画了“9·11”之后的岁月中纽约人所深刻感受到的那种情感上的空虚与隐约的绝望。
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.
First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.
These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.
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