The Immortalists: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live?

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 Fowler It'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, i gnore, 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. EAN: 9781472245007 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 12.07.2018 Autoren: Benjamin, Chloe Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 417 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Literary Keyword: summer read; gripping; American dirt; bestseller; Literary fiction; exciting times; spring read; speculative; where the crawdads sing; well-reviewed; best US fiction; critically acclaimed; easter read; easter deals; perfect book club; book club read; Klara and the sun; daisy jones; hamnet; girl a; luster; siblings; beautiful writing Fachschema: Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung Fachkategorie: Spekulative Literatur~Familienleben Imprint-Titels: Tinder Press Länge: 195 mm Breite: 128 mm Höhe: 35 mm Gewicht: 317 gr Produktform: Kartoniert