The release date for the English version of 'The Immortalists' by
Chloe Benjamin is Jan 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
How would you conduct your life if you knew when you were going to die?
In 1969, rumours have begun to circulate about a mysterious lady who has arrived in New York City's Lower East Side. She is a travelling psychic who says she can predict someone's day of death. The Gold children, four teenagers on the verge of becoming self-aware, slip away to find out their fates.
Their following fifty years are shaped by the forecasts. The dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with fusing fantasy and reality; Daniel, the oldest son, seeks security as an army doctor after 9/11; bookish Varya immerses herself in longevity research, testing the line between science and immortality; and golden-boy Simon flees to the West Coast and searches for love in '80s San Francisco.
The Immortalists is a grand book with extraordinary depth and ambition that explores the boundaries of this world and the next, truth and illusion, and fate and free will. It is an incredibly poignant illustration of the strength of narrative, the character of believing, and the irresistible attraction of family ties.