Eternal Life

By Dara Horn and Eugene W Emmerich III

Book Overview

Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son--are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she's tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.

But as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren--consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering--develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.

Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393608530
• ISBN13: 9780393608533
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Just couldn't make it through this

I tried and tried to be interested in this but in the end I gave up and donated it. Story was too abstract, characters not likeable and somewhat cliche. I loved her book "All Other Nights" so I ordered this and a couple of others. Now I am not so sure about the author and keep moving the other books to the back of the shelf.