{"product_id":"eternal-life-a-novel-9780393608533","title":"Eternal Life A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book of 2018\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What would it really mean to live forever?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The question at the heart of this wise and appealing novel is finally not how Rachel finds meaning in her eternal life. It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours.\" -- Joshua Max Feldman - New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"I have been in love with Horn’s work since her first gorgeous novel, \u003cem\u003eIn the Image\u003c\/em\u003e . . . [This book] simmers with Horn’s signature blend of tragedy and spirituality.\" -- Ron Charles - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"Rachel speaks with the wisdom of the ancients when she observes that immortality offers no consolation for the death of others. ‘Not dying doesn’t make it better,” she says of all that sorrow. ‘It only makes it take longer.’\" -- Sam Sachs - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"To an extent, it’s the humor (and horror) of infinite diaper changes that drives this masterful page-turner. However, \u003cem\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/em\u003e is at its core a serious meditation on the meaning of life and purpose of death.”\" -- Renee Ghert-Zand - Times of Israel\u003cbr\u003e\"As a philosophical novel, \u003cem\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/em\u003e asks the most fundamental of questions: What makes life meaningful? Is its traditional arc, from birth through family formation to death, necessary? Is it a blessing that we insufficiently appreciate?\" -- Julia M. Klein - The Forward\u003cbr\u003e\"Horn does not hedge her bets, whipping up a Jewish telenovela of ancient-world drama and present-day complications. It’ll put you off immortality for good.\" -- Marion Winik - Newsday\u003cbr\u003e\"Most of us have had days where we question if existence is worth it; some of us have experienced an old flame that just won’t go out. In this hilarious and haunting story, Rachel, a mere 2,000 years old, has experienced both.\" -- San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\"The chilling pathos of Dara Horn’s \u003cem\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/em\u003e is bound to turn every mortal reader into a philosopher of cosmic joy.\" -- Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign Bodies\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/em\u003e takes the psychological novel to places I’ve never seen before…Riveting, startling, hilarious, and sad—I’ve never read anything like it.\" -- Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/em\u003e, the familiar account of the joys and sorrows of motherhood turns strange and mythical. Wisdom literature is a rare thing, and even rarer when it arrives, as it does here, in a story so passionate and playful.\" -- Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party\u003cbr\u003e\"An elegant musing on sacredness, history, and purpose that is, at the same time, a deliciously romantic, highly suspenseful page-turner.\" -- Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525162410327,"sku":"9780393608533","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393608533.jpg?v=1731859467","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eternal-life-a-novel-9780393608533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}