Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.”ĭon DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” ( The Washington Post) 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.” 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. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. 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. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing.
A New York Times bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, Zero K-his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld” ( The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.
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