Zero K

He was here now, they both were, father and stepmother, and I’d come to pay the briefest of visits and say an uncertain farewell. Everybody wants to own the end of the world Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled. He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise. And now his healthy father, Ross, might join her. Hypnotic and seductive, Zero K is meditation on the future, on our ideas about death, longevity and our duties both to the living, the dead and the dying. As one might expect from Delillo, a master of seemingly prophetic foresight, this is a visionary novel about the legacies we leave, the nobility of death, and the ultimate worth of 'the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.’ A true chronicler of his time, Richard ‘Don’ Delillo is one of America’s most challenging contemporary writers, consistently using fiction as a sounding board to challenge the status-quo on issues from global warming to terrorism. His best-known novels include White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, Americana, Cosmopolis and Falling Man. ‘Beautiful and profound’ – The Observer ‘A visionary novel of ideas’ – The Independent ‘Daring, provocative, exquisite’ – Washington Post