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that fact Delillo depicts post-war China as even possessing technology capable of cloning a human being in the first place suggests that the rise of that country to the status of "Superpower" in the late 20th/early 21st century, at the expense of the United States as the cloned Mao Zedong became its president at the end of the novel, was fairly self-evident and thus easily predicted. it is an intrinsic arrogance and lack of foresight on the part of the U.S. that such events would come to pass, in either the novel or the actual socio-economical geopolitical realscape of the world we live in, and Delillo damns his country for it.

i have no idea who Delillo is either; Mao II is just a great title

This novel's a beauty. DeLillo takes us on a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing."

-Thomas Pynchon

>yfw pynchon reviews a book about a reclusive author


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