As his first new novel for more than five years is published, we’ll be looking back at the very funny, and very unsettling, book that first made his name
On 19 May, Don DeLillo’s 17th novel, Zero K, arrives in UK shops. It is the writer’s first novel in more than five years. I’ve read an early copy, and it may not surprise you to learn that it’s a stonker. Funny, strange, often achingly moving , it’s also a wonderfully brave confrontation with mortality from a man who is about to enter his ninth decade.
A man, also, who has done as much as anyone currently working to earn his own literary afterlife. It’s hard to think of an author publishing today with a more impressive body of work, who has said more about modern America and the world, and who has done it in more commanding style.
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