Don DeLillo: Zero K
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- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: kaunokirjalliset sekasisältöiset teokset
- Materiaali: e-kirja
- Kustantaja: Pan Macmillan
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781509822829
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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 "e;an uncertain farewell"e; to her as she surrenders her body. "e;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? "e;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 "e;the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth. "e;Don 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, "e;the intimate touch of earth and sun. "e;