Zero K A Novel

<b>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book and <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, <i>Zero K</i>—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, <i>Underworld</i>” (<i>The New York Times</i>), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.</b><br><br>Jeffrey 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.<br> <br>“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?” These 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.”<br> <br>Don DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (<i>The Washington Post</i>) new novel 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.”<br> <br>“One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), <i>Zero K</i> is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.