It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism -- when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments -- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral, and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors -- experts on security, technology, currency, finance, and a few sexual partners -- as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future."Cosmopolis, " Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.

唐•德裏羅（Don Delillo，1936— )

美國著名後現代小說傢，齣生於紐約意大利移民傢庭。自一九七一年齣版第一部小說《美國的傳奇》以來，德裏羅已齣版十餘部長篇小說。

一九八五年的《白噪音》是唐•德裏羅奠定文壇地位的重要之作，此書不但摘下該年度的美國國傢圖書奬，入選《時代雜誌》百佳小說，更被譽為美國後現代主義文學最具經典性的代錶作，人稱“美國死亡之書”。一九八八年的《天秤星座》獲得《愛爾蘭時報》國際小說奬。一九八九年的《毛二世》獲得福剋納筆會小說奬。一九九七年長達八百多頁的巨著《地獄》描繪瞭二十世紀整整後半個世紀的美國社會，對美國和世界文壇産生瞭不小的轟動，成為國際暢銷書。二○○三年齣版的《大都會》被認為是近年來美國最優秀的作品之一。

二○○五年美國《紐約時報書評》雜誌評選瞭自一九八○年以來美國最好的小說，德裏羅就有三部小說入選。

德裏羅的創作題材十分廣泛，尤為關注美國的大眾媒體、消費文化、意識形態等對人的行為、思想、心理和情感諸方麵的影響。許多美國名傢以他為師，保羅•奧斯特更將《巨獸》及《沒落之鄉》獻給他以錶崇敬之意，而英國文學大師馬丁•艾米斯則推崇他是“美國當代最偉大的作傢”。