Empty hearts : a novel / Juli Zeh ; translated from the German by John Cullen.

By:

Zeh, Juli, 1974- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Cullen, John, 1942- [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019]Edition: First American edition.Description: 270 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780385544542

Uniform titles:

Leere Herzen. English

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Empty heartsDDC classification:

833/.92 22

LOC classification:

PT2688.E28 L4413 2019

Summary: In Zeh’s dark satire, a German woman runs a start-up that matches depressed people with terrorist organizations in need of suicide bombers. Reviewing it, Adam Sternbergh calls the book a “dystopian cocktail, served chilled: the internet as universal despair enabler, a global climate of societal chaos and a data-harvesting company well positioned to exploit both. … ‘Empty Hearts’ has the veneer of a thriller but it’s more accurate to call it a chiller: chilling in the accuracy of its satire and chilling in its diagnosis of our modern malaise.”

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In Zeh’s dark satire, a German woman runs a start-up that matches depressed people with terrorist organizations in need of suicide bombers. Reviewing it, Adam Sternbergh calls the book a “dystopian cocktail, served chilled: the internet as universal despair enabler, a global climate of societal chaos and a data-harvesting company well positioned to exploit both. … ‘Empty Hearts’ has the veneer of a thriller but it’s more accurate to call it a chiller: chilling in the accuracy of its satire and chilling in its diagnosis of our modern malaise.”