{"product_id":"zero-k-1","title":"Zero K","description":"Product Description      \nJeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say \"an uncertain farewell\" to her as she surrenders her body.\n\"We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?\"\nThese are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing \"the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.\"\nDon DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel Zero K weighs the darkness of the world -terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague - against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, \"the intimate touch of earth and sun.\"\n      Review      \nBoth beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since\nUnderworld, it forces us to confront the spectre of our own mortality, to ask deep questions of our motives in wishing to prolong our span on Earth. We finish the novel with a sudden recognition of the kindness of death, the balm of a bounded life (\nObserver)\n\nDeLillo is one of urban life's most perceptive chroniclers (\nIndependent)\n\nDeLillo's 16th novel takes a sanguine and, as usual, perceptive look at life as it is now, beset by wars, terrorism and the catastrophic results of climate change, and balances them against the beauty and joy that can be involved in being human (\nDaily Mail)\n\nHumanly moving . . . sentence by sentence brilliance of phrasing and cadence (\nLiterary Review)\n\nA kind of greatest-hits compilation of earlier motifs and gestures (\nLondon Review of Books)\n\nHaunting. . . Simultaneously terrifying yet beautifully told with a real tenderness for the everyday details of life in New York. . . certainly not to be missed (\nGQ)\n\nVery moving . . . his optimism is a welcome gift in this intense and deeply considered book (\nProspect)\n\nA visionary novel of ideas that remembers even visionary novels are read by living, breathing humans (\nIndependent)\n\nAs he approaches 80, Don DeLillo is still producing work that channels America's tensions. . . supple and sad and oddly compassionate too; his most fully realised work in more than a decade (\nGuardian)\n\nDeLillo's spare eloquence and the cosmic depression underlying it makes this emptiest of novels a rich reading experience (\nThe Times)\n\nTime has done nothing to diminish this writer's casually epigraphic style, his daring narrative choreography nor his sensitivity to the swelling fears of our age . . . truly provocative' (\nThe Washington Post)\n\n[DeLillo's] most persuasive [novel] since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece,\nUnderworld . . . Zero K reminds us of Mr. DeLillo's almost Day-Glo powers as a writer and his understanding of the strange, contorted shapes that eternal human concerns (with mortality and time) can take in the new millennium' (Michiko Kakutani\nNew York Times)\n\nBrilliant in its imaginative scope (\nThe Atlantic)\n\nAmong DeLillo's finest work . . . DeLillo sneaks a heartbreaking story of a son attempting to reconnect with his father into his thought-provoking novel (\nPublishers Weekly)\n\nSentence by sentence, DeLillo magically slips the knot of criticism and gives his readers what Nabokov maintained was all that mattered in life and art: individual genius. Sentence by sentence, DeLillo seduces . . . DeLillo has written a handful of the past half-century's finest novels. Now, as he approaches 80, he gives us one more, written distinctly for the 21st (Joshua Ferri","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663414247509,"sku":"9781509822850N","price":10.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/3ac989f9-e472-4de4-b08c-2a56b0160672.jpg?v=1644267655","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/zero-k-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}