The Immortalists
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live?
(Sprache: Englisch)
If you knew the date you were going to die, then how would you live your life? asks this bestselling, critically acclaimed novel.
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If you knew the date you were going to die, then how would you live your life? asks this bestselling, critically acclaimed novel.
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Chloe Benjamin's THE IMMORTALISTS, is dazzling family drama for fans of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES and FATES AND FURIES. 'It's amazing how good this book is' Karen Joy FowlerIt's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.
Over the years that follow, the siblings must choose how to live with the phrophecies the fortune-teller gave them that day. Will they accept, ignore, cheat, or defy them? Golden-boy Simon escapes to San Francisco, searching for love; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician; eldest son Daniel tries to control fate as an army doctor after 9/11; and bookish Varya looks to science for the answers she craves.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists is a story about how we live, how we die, and what we do with the time we have.
Autoren-Porträt von Chloe Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin is the author of The Anatomy of Dreams, which won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She lives with her husband in Wisconsin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chloe Benjamin
- 2018, 448 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Headline
- ISBN-10: 1472245008
- ISBN-13: 9781472245007
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A boundlessly moving inquisition into mortality, grief and passion...The Immortalists is not just a novel about grief; it conjures characters with such dimension that you mourn them too, a magic rare enough to leave one astonished Observer
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