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Zusatztext An eerie descent into a secret collective that seeks to elude death through cryonic freezing. It blends DeLillo's typical mix of introspection and creeping dread with something else — a menacing sense of the absurd, borrowed from Kafka. Combine this with a wry sense of humor and you've got a dive into the murky boundary between life and death that's as amusing as it is alarming Informationen zum Autor Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega , Falling Man , White Noise, Libra and Zero K , and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld . In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays. Klappentext 'Supple and sad and oddly compassionate too; his most fully realised work in more than a decade' GuardianJeffrey 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 his healthy father! Ross! might join her.Hypnotic and seductive! Zero K 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.''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 can take in the new millennium' New York Times The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Zusammenfassung The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life....
