--- product_id: 60918703 title: "Zero K" price: "Rp515854" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/60918703-zero-k store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Zero K **Price:** Rp515854 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Zero K - **How much does it cost?** Rp515854 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/60918703-zero-k) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A New York Times Notable Book and 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. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. 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. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. 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. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don 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.” “One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time. Review: Unmoored - DeLillo is drawn to philosophical themes, and this is definitely that sort of book. The plot itself has a surreal quality. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father and stepmother are immersed in something called the Convergence. His stepmother, Artis, is dying, and, through his father, Ross’s, wealth, she is going to be preserved in cryonic suspension to be awakened at some future time to resume her life when her health can be restored. The Convergence is not some tech lab in Pasadena — it’s located a thousand miles south of Chelyabinsk, the site of a 2013 meteor explosion. Its design and Jeffrey’s experience of it are enigmatic and a little unreal. Everything in the novel is at this slight remove from reality. All of the characters acquire a questionable relationship to their own lives. As Artis says, “I’m someone who’s supposed to be me.” All of the characters are people who are supposed to be themselves, but are never quite simply themselves. Who are they are and what their relationships are to other people are always at question, unmoored, floating near the dock but untethered. Jeffrey’s entire life is unmoored. He has no coherence in his career, his family or other relationships. He has an ambiguous relationship with a woman, Emma, whose son, Stak, is himself at odds for who or what to be. Jeffrey’s father, Ross, has even changed his name, has lost his relationship with Jeffrey’s mother, and he is on the brink of losing Artis. Artis herself is destined for a death that isn’t quite a death. Jeffrey habitually tries to define words and find the right word for situations, to find a “secure placement” for his conscious life in relation to the world itself. It’s as if he is making a desperate attempt to pin the world down with words, to somehow attach that conscious awareness that narrates life to the world itself through the right words. But there is always a kind of buffer zone between Jeffrey and the world, a zone in which things can be transformed — names changed, pasts invented, facts rejected. Awareness swims in motion above reality. A “convergence” would be nice, solving all of this. But that’s not going to happen. If I had to compare this to another DeLillo novel, it might be Point Omega. It shares the same surreal, sparse feel, the same place that isn’t really a place where abstractions can be fully entertained. If you wanted a neat story with an ending that wraps everything up, you’re not going to be happy. I liked the book, though. Its enigmatic quality fits what I think DeLillo is conveying, that, no, lives and identities are not solid and fixed — they are fluid and unclear, always at question, always requiring us to fix them to something if they are ever to become fixed and solid. Review: A return to lyrical abstraction and contemplation over mortality - Zero K returns to many of DeLillo's themes and preoccupations, particularly how human beings process mortality and our relationship with the planet. I feel that certain aspects of DeLillo's writing have improved with time, in particular the pensive, meditative voice of the text, in which he manages to articulate deep abstract concepts in a lyrical manner. For example, "This was the aesthetic of seclusion and concealment, all the elements that I found so eerie and disembodying. The empty halls, the color patterns, the office doors that did or did not open into an office. The mazelike moments, time suspended, content blunted, the lack of explanation." Passages like these provide a unique, estranged sense of interiority, which works particularly well for exploring how human beings mentally process mortality. One issue I have noticed in DeLillo's most recent texts, however, is that its subject matter goes so deeply cerebral and abstract I find myself searching for characters and a sense of a living community in the text. It's like when you see a Sims game and immediately realize the people in that fictional community are just sort of there, present, but no sense of real life being lived between them. People in his texts feel more like generic propositions of people than they do relatable individuals. That balance between the inner voice of the narrator, and the lives of other characters in the text, often feels neglected, more so than it did in earlier novels like White Noise, which also had mortality as one of the central preoccupations in the book. Overall I found Zero K an enjoyable read because of its refined style, voice, and linguistic craftsmanship. I would recommend it as a good concept-based novel, rich with poetic and philosophical appeal – BUT if that's really not your cup of tea this might not hold your attention. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #532,872 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #418 in Humorous American Literature #3,363 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #10,777 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.5 out of 5 stars 1,361 Reviews | ## Images ![Zero K - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+ZXvcuiJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unmoored *by D***S on May 24, 2016* DeLillo is drawn to philosophical themes, and this is definitely that sort of book. The plot itself has a surreal quality. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father and stepmother are immersed in something called the Convergence. His stepmother, Artis, is dying, and, through his father, Ross’s, wealth, she is going to be preserved in cryonic suspension to be awakened at some future time to resume her life when her health can be restored. The Convergence is not some tech lab in Pasadena — it’s located a thousand miles south of Chelyabinsk, the site of a 2013 meteor explosion. Its design and Jeffrey’s experience of it are enigmatic and a little unreal. Everything in the novel is at this slight remove from reality. All of the characters acquire a questionable relationship to their own lives. As Artis says, “I’m someone who’s supposed to be me.” All of the characters are people who are supposed to be themselves, but are never quite simply themselves. Who are they are and what their relationships are to other people are always at question, unmoored, floating near the dock but untethered. Jeffrey’s entire life is unmoored. He has no coherence in his career, his family or other relationships. He has an ambiguous relationship with a woman, Emma, whose son, Stak, is himself at odds for who or what to be. Jeffrey’s father, Ross, has even changed his name, has lost his relationship with Jeffrey’s mother, and he is on the brink of losing Artis. Artis herself is destined for a death that isn’t quite a death. Jeffrey habitually tries to define words and find the right word for situations, to find a “secure placement” for his conscious life in relation to the world itself. It’s as if he is making a desperate attempt to pin the world down with words, to somehow attach that conscious awareness that narrates life to the world itself through the right words. But there is always a kind of buffer zone between Jeffrey and the world, a zone in which things can be transformed — names changed, pasts invented, facts rejected. Awareness swims in motion above reality. A “convergence” would be nice, solving all of this. But that’s not going to happen. If I had to compare this to another DeLillo novel, it might be Point Omega. It shares the same surreal, sparse feel, the same place that isn’t really a place where abstractions can be fully entertained. If you wanted a neat story with an ending that wraps everything up, you’re not going to be happy. I liked the book, though. Its enigmatic quality fits what I think DeLillo is conveying, that, no, lives and identities are not solid and fixed — they are fluid and unclear, always at question, always requiring us to fix them to something if they are ever to become fixed and solid. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A return to lyrical abstraction and contemplation over mortality *by S***E on June 3, 2016* Zero K returns to many of DeLillo's themes and preoccupations, particularly how human beings process mortality and our relationship with the planet. I feel that certain aspects of DeLillo's writing have improved with time, in particular the pensive, meditative voice of the text, in which he manages to articulate deep abstract concepts in a lyrical manner. For example, "This was the aesthetic of seclusion and concealment, all the elements that I found so eerie and disembodying. The empty halls, the color patterns, the office doors that did or did not open into an office. The mazelike moments, time suspended, content blunted, the lack of explanation." Passages like these provide a unique, estranged sense of interiority, which works particularly well for exploring how human beings mentally process mortality. One issue I have noticed in DeLillo's most recent texts, however, is that its subject matter goes so deeply cerebral and abstract I find myself searching for characters and a sense of a living community in the text. It's like when you see a Sims game and immediately realize the people in that fictional community are just sort of there, present, but no sense of real life being lived between them. People in his texts feel more like generic propositions of people than they do relatable individuals. That balance between the inner voice of the narrator, and the lives of other characters in the text, often feels neglected, more so than it did in earlier novels like White Noise, which also had mortality as one of the central preoccupations in the book. Overall I found Zero K an enjoyable read because of its refined style, voice, and linguistic craftsmanship. I would recommend it as a good concept-based novel, rich with poetic and philosophical appeal – BUT if that's really not your cup of tea this might not hold your attention. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Tropism *by J***K on June 16, 2016* Great start with a compelling concept but it petered out into angst and recycled tropes about the fate of humanity. 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