Pan Macmillan presents Zero K by Don DeLillo, the wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from one of the great American novelists of our time. This is an ode to language, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.
DeLillo’s seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel Zero K 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.
Praise:
“DeLillo’s prose style has undergone a quickening. His sentences have always had a cascade effect, but lately their arc is steeper. Gravity has assumed more force. And [in Zero K] style and theme have something in common.” –Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine
“Zero K is science fiction of a kind that takes place five minutes from now and a novel of ideas that’s deeply emotional.” –Jeff Baker, Seattle Times
[DeLillo is] the master of the pre-apocalyptic novel, the chief literary mapper of the dehumanized places our current world may lead us. [He] is near the top of his game in Zero K.” –Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
“A profound and deeply moral book.” –Ann Levin, Associated Press
“One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving and formally rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career… Unexpectedly touching… [DeLillo offers] consolation simply by enacting so well the mystery and awe of the real world… I finished it stunned and grateful.” –Joshua Ferris, The New York Times Book Review
“Brilliant and astonishing… a masterpiece… full of DeLillo’s amazing inimitable scalpel perceptions, fluent in the ideas we’ll be talking about 20 years from now… ZERO K somehow manages to renew DeLillo’s longstanding obsessions while also striking deeply and swiftly at the reader’s emotions….The effect is transcendent.” –Charles Finch,Chicago Tribune
“Daring… provocative… exquisite… captures the swelling fears of our age.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Among DeLillo’s finest work… DeLillo sneaks a heartbreaking story of a son attempting to reconnect with his father into his thought-provoking novel.” –Publishers Weekly,starred review
“Zero K is most resonant in its portraits of characters who are uncertain and unmoored as the confront the immediate realities of ageing and loss.” –Arin Keeble, The Independent