Empty hearts : a novel /
Juli Zeh ; translated from the German by John Cullen.
- First American edition.
- 270 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published in Germany as Leere Herzen by Luchterhand Literaturverlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich, in 2017"--Title page verso.
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.”