零K – Zero K by Don DeLillo

中亚某沙漠地带的地下，亿万富翁罗斯投资了一个可以精准控制死亡的隐秘机构，用冷冻技术保存人体，等待未来新技术的降临以重获新生。儿子杰弗里发现父亲罗斯冷冻了自己病入膏肓的年轻妻子阿尔蒂。他来到沙漠之中，准备与继母做一场道别。

此书出版时，德里罗已经八十岁了，但他依然以先知般的笔触，描绘着后现代恐惧、魔力与科技乌托邦的未来人类图景。

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, 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 seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant 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.”

Zero K is glorious. 

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