A Best Book of the Year:?Washington Post, NPR,?Entertainment Weekly,?Real Simple,?Marie Claire, New York Public Library,?LibraryReads,?The Skimm, LitHub,?Lit Reactor
Instant?New York Times?Best Seller
“A captivating family saga.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.” (People Magazine, Book of the Week)
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
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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莫名其妙就開了這一本，看之前以為會像The Memory Collectors，但這本的魔幻色彩比較少，反而很實際地寫了四個兄弟姐妹知道自己的死期之后的人生。 Simon的一生，從小不合群，V也覺得他時常就disappear了。知道自己的死期之后，他義無反顧要去體驗生活，要活成自己，也找到了自己所愛的人。（Simon這一part聽著特別像On the Road）Klara也是一個追夢者，她好奇她的namesake是怎樣的人，也嘗試成為她那樣的人，學會她的絕技，出去闖出自己的事業(yè)，其實最重要的是她對魔術有自己的理解，有熱情有理想。她為什么而死呢？其實這很像，她被告知了時間，于是她執(zhí)行。