Zero K

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.