It starts with a crack of the bat and the roar of a crowd. In 1951, as the “Shot Heard Round the World” echoes through a baseball stadium, news breaks of the Soviet Union’s first hydrogen bomb test. From that instant, a scuffed baseball begins its journey through time and lives, carrying the weight of America’s history with it.
Through the eyes of Nick Shay, a man haunted by secrets, and Klara Sax, an artist reclaiming the remnants of a broken world, Underworld traces five decades of ambition, decay, and redemption.
Don DeLillo’s masterpiece captures the pulse of a nation—its fears, its obsessions, and its longing to make sense of the past. A sweeping, haunting meditation on what endures when everything else fades.
