The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The work of a startlingly original voice, as the Daily Mail comments, ‘such is her dazzling sureness of touch that you wonder if here is a writer who is truly capable of anything'. 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.Ī 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. Will they accept, ignore, cheat or defy them? Over the years that follow, the siblings must choose how to live with the prophecies the fortune-teller gave them that day. ![]() The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes. 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. As profound a meditation on destiny as readers are likely to encounter. Her voice is matter-of-fact, as if she is stating the temperature, or the winner of the ballgame. Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists is the very best kind of literary thriller, its suspense deriving from characters we care about deeply and surprises that feel embedded in our shared humanity. ![]()
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