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A Brief History of Living Forever

✍ Scribed by Jaroslav Kalfar

Book ID: 111323890
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Weight: 607 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780316463201

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✦ Synopsis

In this "ingenious, funny, and chilling" novel (Publishers Weekly , starred review) from the author of Spaceman of Bohemia , two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion in an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life--a story that "packs a walloping punch" (Esquire).

When Adela discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the daughter she gave up at birth, decades earlier. But the country Adela experienced as a young woman, when she eloped with a filmmaker and starred in his cult sci-fi movie, has changed entirely. In 2030, America is ruled by an authoritarian government increasingly closed off to the rest of the world.
Tereza, the star researcher for VITA, a biotech company hellbent on discovering the key to immortality, is overjoyed to...

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