Chloe Benjamin

'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 FowlerIt'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.

Pack exclusivo de Casa del Libro: por la compra de un ejemplar de Los inmortales llévate de REGALO* una Guía de escenarios de la novela con información práctica para realizar cuatro rutas imprescindibles en los escenarios de la novela (Nueva York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Columbia). *Promocion valida hasta fin de existencias.Si te dijeran la fecha de tu muerte, ¿como construirias tu presente?¿Tenemos un destino predeterminado o podemos cambiarlo con nuestra voluntad y acciones?En 1969 en el Lower East Side de Nueva York se esta corriendo la voz sobre la llegada de una mujer mistica: una adivina viajera que asegura poder predecir la fecha de la muerte de las personas. Los hermanos Gold, Simon, Klara, Daniel y Varya, son cuatro adolescentes que consiguen localizar a la adivina y saber que les depara el futuro.Pero lo que los hermanos Gold no entienden es que este secreto conlleva un gran peso, que no todo el mundo es capaz de soportar¿Tenemos un destino predeterminado o podemos cambiarlo con nuestra voluntad y acciones? La novela que esta deslumbrando al mundo.* Promocion valida hasta fin de existencias.

Discover the award-winning debut novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, a majestic collision of sci-fi thriller and love story (Bustle) about a young woman struggling with questions of love, trust, and ethics as the line between dreams and reality dangerously blurs. When Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe, they embark on an experiment that changes their lives. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: by teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he believes he can relieve stress and trauma. Over the next six years, Sylvie and Gabe become consumed by Kellers work, following him across the country.But when an opportunity brings the trio to the Midwest, Sylvie and Gabe stumble into a tangled relationship with their mysterious neighborsand Sylvie begins to doubt the ethics of Kellers research. As she navigates the hazy, permeable boundaries between what is real and what isnt, who can be trusted and who cannot, Sylvie also faces surprising developments in herselfan unexpected infatuation, growing paranoia, and a new sense of rebellion.With stirring, elegant prose, Chloe Benjamin has crafted an eerie, compelling first novel which, like the lingering effects of a vivid dream, resonates long past its finish (Karen Brown, The Longings of Wayward Girls).

The bewitching first novel from the bestselling author of THE IMMORTALISTSBenjamin is a gifted writer, a creator of quiet asides and haunting imagesFinancial TimesMatches the subtle surrealism of a dream with the underpinnings of a thriller Emma StraubYou wonder if here is a writer who is truly capable of anythingDaily MailSylvie and Gabe meet and fall in love at boarding school in Northern California when they are just teenagers. Their headmaster is the enigmatic and mysterious Dr Keller, a man obsessed with the idea that peoples waking stress and trauma can be cured in their dreams. The young couple cant help but be drawn into his magnetic pull and slowly become involved in his research. Years later, Sylvie and Gabe are once again working on Dr Kellers experiments and Sylvie slowly begins to realise there is more both to her employer and her lover than meets the eye, and that the line between dreams and reality has become dangerously blurred.

Once I started reading The Immortalists, I resented every moment I had to spend away from the book until Id finishedStylistA compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on displaySunday ExpressIts 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New Yorks 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 theyre about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the knowledge given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever.Readers love The Immortalists:I read this book over three days and will remember it for a lifetime *****This is a book that I never wanted to finish reading. I truly enjoyed each single word of it *****A book of epic proportions. . . mystical and hugely memorable . . . I cant praise it highly enough. A must read! *****Deserves all the noise around it *****One of those books I wish I could un-read so I could read it all over again for the first time *****A perfect book club read *****

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post NPR Entertainment Weekly Real Simple Marie Claire New York Public Library LibraryReads The Skimm Lit Hub Lit Reactor AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA captivating family saga.The New York Times Book ReviewThis 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?Its 1969 in New York Citys 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 childrenfour adolescents on the cusp of self-awarenesssneak 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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The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love storyand a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamins place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers.We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything shes ever known. For ten hours a day, six days per week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and a family.But even in this remote outpost, Laurel cant escape her past. When a strange light appears across the iceand draws a group of physicists to McMurdoher former husband, Eli, wont be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between themto turn back the clock and live their story a second time?A breathless page-turner and a love letter to our planet, Under Story grapples with the great questions of our time: human hubris, the precarity of the natural world, and the mysterious webs of consciousness that bind us. A modern epic of science and soul, of bravery and redemption, it offers a vision of the future that demands we reckon with what we owe to one another, and to the earth itself.

À quoi ressemblerait votre vie si vous connaissiez la date de votre mort ?New York, été 1969. Pour tromper lennui, les enfants Gold ne trouvent rien de mieux à faire que daller consulter une voyante

Si te dijeran la fecha de tu muerte, ¿cómo construirías tu presente?¿Tenemos un destino predeterminado o podemos cambiarlo con nuestra voluntad y acciones? En 1969 en el Lower East Side de Nueva York

Si supieras la fecha exacta de tu muerte.¿Cómo vivirías tu vida? En 1969 en el Lower East Side de Nueva York se está corriendo la voz sobre la llegada de una mujer mística: una adivina viajera que asegura poder predecir la fecha de la muerte de las personas. Los hermanos Gold, Simon, Klara, Daniel y Varya, son cuatro adolescentes que consiguen localizar a la adivina y saber que les depara el futuro.Pero lo que los hermanos Gold no entienden es que este secreto conlleva un gran peso, que no todo el mundo es capaz de soportar¿Tenemos un destino predeterminado o podemos cambiarlo con nuestra voluntad y acciones? La novela que esta deslumbrando al mundo.

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.Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the ''knowledge'' given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever.

NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO EDNA FERBERSELECCIONADA PARA EL PREMIO FLAHERTY-DUNNAN A LA MEJOR NOVELA DEBUTEn 1998 Sylvie Patterson, estudiante de un internado en California, se enamora de su compañero de salon, Gabe, un chico tan vivaz como misterioso. El es el protegido de su carismatico director, el doctor Adrian Keller, un cientifico que ha basado su carrera en el estudio del potencial terapeutico de los sueños lucidos: sus pacientes pueden superar sus traumas aprendiendo a seguir conscientes mientras sueñan. Años despues, Sylvie decide seguir a Gabe, que se ha convertido en un devoto de Keller y su causa. Pero cuando la oportunidad de conseguir financiamiento para su investigacion los lleva a una ciudad del medio oeste, sus vidas se ven afectadas por la llegada de unos enigmaticos vecinos. Sylvie empieza a dudar de la etica del trabajo de Keller, reconociendo que el progreso cientifico tambien puede causar mucho daño. En la neblinosa y permeable frontera que separa lo real de lo que no lo es, Sylvie tiene que afrontar sorprendentes cambios en si misma: una pasion imprevista, una creciente paranoia y una alarmante rebeldia.