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A Brief History of Living Forever
Jaroslav Kalfar
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Description for A Brief History of Living Forever
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA, NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING ADAM SANDLER AND CAREY MULLIGAN
'Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo' Daily Telegraph
'A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch' New York Times
'Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch' Esquire
Adéla, diagnosed with a terminal illness, leaves her Czech village for America to reunite with her daughter Tereza, now a scientist at a New York biotech company hellbent on curing mortality. Their reunion is short, and before Tereza can help her mother, Adéla dies and her remains disappear.
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA, NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING ADAM SANDLER AND CAREY MULLIGAN
'Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo' Daily Telegraph
'A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch' New York Times
'Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch' Esquire
Adéla, diagnosed with a terminal illness, leaves her Czech village for America to reunite with her daughter Tereza, now a scientist at a New York biotech company hellbent on curing mortality. Their reunion is short, and before Tereza can help her mother, Adéla dies and her remains disappear.
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529368819
SKU
9781529368819
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jaroslav Kalfar
Jaroslav Kalfar was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. He earned his MFA at NYU, where he was a Goldwater Fellow and a finalist for the E. L. Doctorow Fellowship. In 2018, he was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship. Spaceman of Bohemia, his critically acclaimed ... Read more
Reviews for A Brief History of Living Forever
Ambitious, exciting . . . Kalfar knows his way around a sentence. By turns aphoristic and lyrical, with touches of Don DeLillo, Kalfar's prose contains plenty of stylish wisdom . . . Mixing fantasy, satire, horror and metaphysics, A Brief History has many stories to tell. But the pulse animating each of them is the shock of sudden loss - ... Read more