{"product_id":"zero-k","title":"Zero K -","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a\u003cbr\u003e\n younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the \u003cbr\u003e\nprimary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is \u003cbr\u003e\nexquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when\u003cbr\u003e\n biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of \u003cbr\u003e\ntranscendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say \u003cbr\u003e\n\"an uncertain farewell\" to her as she surrenders her body.  \"We are born\u003cbr\u003e\n without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't\u003cbr\u003e\n it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?\"  These are the \u003cbr\u003e\nquestions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is \u003cbr\u003e\nRoss Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another\u003cbr\u003e\n dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. \u003cbr\u003e\nJeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing \"the \u003cbr\u003e\nmingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.\" Don DeLillo's \u003cbr\u003e\nseductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel Zero K weighs the \u003cbr\u003e\ndarkness of the world-terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague-against \u003cbr\u003e\nthe beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, \"the intimate touch\u003cbr\u003e\n of earth and sun.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44228063363132,"sku":"9781509822836","price":597.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/zero-k-9781509822836_c02f479b-0937-45cf-9478-fe8fdd236b02.jpg?v=1776776455","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/zero-k","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}