The Immortalists: A Novel
Material type: TextPublication details: UK: Tinder Pass, 2018Description: 417p. 20cmISBN:- 9781472245007
- PS3602.E66347
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Asian University for Women Library | Fiction | General Stacks | PS3602.E66347 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 030700 |
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children - four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness - sneak out to hear their fortunes.
The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
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