'The Immortalists' had a fantastic start - after hearing so much praise about it from customers I went out on a limb and bought a copy for myself. The premise is that in 1969 four siblings seek out a fortune teller who knows when people will die. What they hear will effect the rest of their lives...
Die vier Geschwister Varya, Daniel, Klara und Simon ahnen nichts schlimmes, als sie 1969, noch als Kinder, eine Wahrsagerin aufsuchen. Diese ist bekannt dafür das genaue Todesurteil vorhersagen zu können. Das Wissen um diesen Tag sitzt jeden von ihnen im Nacken und keiner weiß, ob die Wahrsagerin mi...
New York im Sommer 1969: Die Geschwister Simon (7), Klara (9), Daniel (11) und Varya (13) Gold werden zum Opfer ihrer Neugier. Sie lassen sich von einer Wahrsagerin, die sich gerade in der Stadt aufhält, den exakten Tag ihres Todes voraussagen. Die Älteste wird demnach mit einem langen Leben rechnen...
Nothing more than a conjuring of cheap tricksHow would you live your life if you knew when you were going to die?That’s the high-concept idea behind Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists, which opens in 1969 Brooklyn with the four Gold children, aged 7 to 13, visiting a fortune teller who gives each the...
I really enjoyed this one, probably one my favorite reads this year. Four siblings in 1969 New York go see a fortune teller who tells each of them separately the dates of their deaths, and the prophecies affect how each of them live their lives from that moment on. The book is divided into four part...
AudiobookI kept putting off requesting this book because I stopped reading family sagas in the early 1980s. But I kept reading the blurb over and over and finally thought why not. This book was so good! It's about 4 brothers and sisters and their life from an encounter with a psychic until their dea...
This one was entirely different than I'd imagined it would be, and that was fine. I like to be surprised. What was slightly lacking for me was why the Romani fortune teller had such an effect on these four kids. They were raised steeped in Judaism, at least by their father. They were first generatio...
I did enjoy this book. I found the stories of Simon and Klara heartbreaking and very real. I recall that time when AIDS first revealed itself. Simon's story is an interesting study on that time and the many factors involved in its emergence. However we never loose sight of the personal in this story...
The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin, author; Maggie Hoffman, narratorWhen the book begins, in 1969, the Gold children decide to visit a fortune teller named Bruna Costello, a Romani gypsy who could tell those who consulted her the date of their deaths. At the time, Varya was 13, Daniel was 11, Klara wa...
“... they break through the surface in astounding numbers. They climb the nearest vertical object; the husks of their nymphal skins drop crisply to the ground. Their bodies are pale and not yet hardened. In the darkness, they sing.” Despite my low rating, I do think it is possible for people to en...
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