--- product_id: 60918703 title: "Zero K: A Novel" price: "NT$825" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/60918703-zero-k-a-novel store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Zero K: A Novel **Price:** NT$825 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Zero K: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** NT$825 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/60918703-zero-k-a-novel) ## 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 Zero K: A Novel [DeLillo, Don] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Zero K: A Novel Review: Life, unpaused but still - There's a strange video screen in the sorrowful underground of the main setting for Zero K; it plays non sequitur videos that seem unlikely, if not impossible, to capture. Like a Bill Viola exhibit injected with personal reality, narratives unfold on them silently in dreamy, terrible landscapes. Like Robert Capa or Sean Flynn war photos, they seem too true to be real. This is Delillo territory now, and has been in pieces for his career. Scenes are dead weird; characters experience crippling or overwhelming anomie, inhabiting extremes -- of wealth, of arid desert, of grief and of intense desire. Each book itself turns over like the next flipper of a steel sea serpent undulating through modernity. They're different, but the skin is the same, the shape familiar, the propulsion outsized and extraordinary. What you need to know about the book: It muses, as always, on the riddle of living when death is certain, in a world where its inevitability robs joy and hope. Its characters display ample wit, self-knowledge, and care, but find themselves trapped in a centrifugal vortex that forces them to alienate themselves in a grief of contemplation. The language, as always, is precise, and evokes Mamet. There is an absurdist core, but Delillo shows great kindness and compassion for the human inability to release itself from a rage for sorrow. The plot satisfies, but not conventionally. In truth, the book is in the same territory as the videos it depicts: Clear as distance in a world without atmosphere, life in it unlikely but uncommonly precious -- indeed, more so, because of the absolute certainty of its doom. 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 | #313,311 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #240 in Humorous American Literature #1,830 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #6,326 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars (1,356) | | Dimensions | 5.25 x 0.6 x 8 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 1501138073 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1501138072 | | Item Weight | 8.3 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 288 pages | | Publication date | May 16, 2017 | | Publisher | Scribner | ## Images ![Zero K: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+ZXvcuiJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Life, unpaused but still *by W***T on May 7, 2016* There's a strange video screen in the sorrowful underground of the main setting for Zero K; it plays non sequitur videos that seem unlikely, if not impossible, to capture. Like a Bill Viola exhibit injected with personal reality, narratives unfold on them silently in dreamy, terrible landscapes. Like Robert Capa or Sean Flynn war photos, they seem too true to be real. This is Delillo territory now, and has been in pieces for his career. Scenes are dead weird; characters experience crippling or overwhelming anomie, inhabiting extremes -- of wealth, of arid desert, of grief and of intense desire. Each book itself turns over like the next flipper of a steel sea serpent undulating through modernity. They're different, but the skin is the same, the shape familiar, the propulsion outsized and extraordinary. What you need to know about the book: It muses, as always, on the riddle of living when death is certain, in a world where its inevitability robs joy and hope. Its characters display ample wit, self-knowledge, and care, but find themselves trapped in a centrifugal vortex that forces them to alienate themselves in a grief of contemplation. The language, as always, is precise, and evokes Mamet. There is an absurdist core, but Delillo shows great kindness and compassion for the human inability to release itself from a rage for sorrow. The plot satisfies, but not conventionally. In truth, the book is in the same territory as the videos it depicts: Clear as distance in a world without atmosphere, life in it unlikely but uncommonly precious -- indeed, more so, because of the absolute certainty of its doom. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Missed the marks. *by L***F on September 2, 2016* I looked forward to how DeLillo would combine futurism with a character study and was disappointed. The science fiction is already yesterday's news (Ted Williams) and the characters are one dimensional, less than believable and even if believable, not very compelling. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/60918703-zero-k-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/60918703-zero-k-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-04-28*