TY - BOOK AU - Zeh,Juli AU - Cullen,John TI - Empty hearts: a novel SN - 9780385544542 AV - PT2688.E28 L4413 2019 U1 - 833/.92 22 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday KW - German literature KW - READING IN ENGLISH N1 - "Originally published in Germany as Leere Herzen by Luchterhand Literaturverlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich, in 2017"--Title page verso N2 - 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.” ER -