Book cover for Zero K

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23 February 2017
288 pages
9781509822843
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Both beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since Underworld, it forces us to confront the spectre of our own mortality, to ask deep questions of our motives in wishing to prolong our span on Earth. We finish the novel with a sudden recognition of the kindness of death, the balm of a bounded life
DeLillo is one of urban life's most perceptive chroniclers
DeLillo's 16th novel takes a sanguine and, as usual, perceptive look at life as it is now, beset by wars, terrorism and the catastrophic results of climate change, and balances them against the beauty and joy that can be involved in being human
Humanly moving . . . sentence by sentence brilliance of phrasing and cadence