![]() That’s about it as far as plot is concerned. Our narrator is Ross’s son, Jeff, an aimless drifter, the opposite of his rapacious capitalist father, visiting the facility to see his dying stepmother for the last time. He’s also an investor in a secret facility in the windswept wastes of Central Asia where failing bodies are euthanised and cryogenically frozen until a time when they can be resurrected back to full health. Ross Lockhart is a millionaire financier whose wife is dying from a terminal illness. The first line of the novel, “Everybody wants to own the end of the world,” keys us in to the main preoccupations – eschatology and apocalypse – that will echo across its rich, slinky pages. His major novels have all grappled with the finite nature of existence, but never has he tackled it so directly as he does in Zero K. ![]() Don DeLillo has always been a writer obsessed by death. ![]()
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