The Immortalists

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live?

By: Chloe Benjamin

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Hardcover | 13 March 2018 | Edition Number 1

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'For someone who loves stories about brothers and sisters, as I do, THE IMMORTALISTS is about as good as it gets. It's amazing how good this book is' Karen Joy Fowler

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.

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For someone who loves stories about brothers and sisters, as I do, 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 great new talent - Lorrie Moore

A beautiful, compassionate, and even joyful novel. Chloe Benjamin has written an inspiring book that makes you think hard about what you want to do with the time you're given. This is not really a book about dying-it's a book about how to live - Nathan Hill, author of THE NIX

The very best kind of literary thriller... As profound a meditation on destiny as readers are likely to encounter Richard Russo - Richard Russo

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