New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book 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...
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2017-04-02
Betyg 
Saknar konflikten i boken. Det är för lätt att ge upp livet. För lätt att köpa efterlivet, som ingen känner, men som bygger på vetenskap, snarare än religion. Jag tappar medkännandet lite. Ändå stimulerande, ganska ofta.
2017-02-04
Betyg
En lite väl konstig bok totalt sett, men med delar som får mig att reflektera över hela grejen med att leva och att vara människa. Och det är en grej jag verkligen gillar med böcker, när de gör så.
