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 prophecies 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.
'Such is her dazzling sureness of touch that you wonder if here is a writer who is truly capable of anything' - The Daily Mail
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472244987
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 680 g
Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 42 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'…a boundlessly moving inquisition into mortality, grief, and passion.' - The Observer
'...mesmerising, like a well-crafted illusion.' - The Financial Times
'Immersive and impressive.' - The Sunday Times
'The Immortalists is about as good as it gets. A memorable and heartfelt look at what might happen to a family who knows too much. It's amazing how good this book is.' - Karen Joy Fowler
'A captivating family saga.' - New York Times Book Review
'As deft and dizzying as a high-wire act... the reader is beguiled with unexpected twists and stylish, crisp prose...[an] ambitious, unorthodox tale.' - Economist
'Such is her dazzling sureness of touch that you wonder if here is a writer who is truly capable of anything' - The Daily Mail
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