Eternal Life

By: Dara Horn

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

The award-winning, critically acclaimed author returns with an ingenious novel about what it would mean to live forever.

Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles - widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son - are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years - ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.

In 2018, as her children and grandchildren develop new technologies for immortality, Rachel knows she must enable her beloved offspring to live fully-without her, but with meaning - by finding a way for herself to die.

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.

©2018 Dara Horn (P)2018 Recorded Books

deep, subtle, well done

a deep feeling, history spanning exploration of what it means to be human, and what makes life matter.

Who is this woman?

I’m very disappointed in this book. It’s a great story idea but the woman’s character is one dimensional. Her life is one dimensional. This is how she chooses to spend eternity just getting married and having children over and over? Has she done nothing else with her eternal life? Too bad great initial idea though.

More romance than science fiction

My favourite novel genres are sci-fi and historical mysteries, and this book appeared to have elements of both. While that was definitely true, the story line the author focuses on the most is the love story between Rachel and the one other character cursed with immortality. The plot line I was most interested in was about Rachel's present day family and whether or not they would uncover her secret and what would happen if they did. Unfortunatly, that was not the emphasis of the book. There were certainly some interesting moments and some good historical detail, as well as some insightful reflections on how immortality would change one's outlook. Overall though, just not the story for me.

incredible

This is one of the most beautiful and meaningful pieces of literature I've ever read.

Engrossing Listen

Great story, wonderfully performed, engaging from beginning to end. With a little more involvement between the two main characters with a little more detail of how each fit themselves into various historical eras, this could have been a great trilogy.

Love this book

This is a book that will stay with you for a long time. A great Jewish novel and a story about what is important in life.

Satisfying to the end.

Amazing and original plot.
Well performed.
Colossal scale and not predictable.
Very focused themes.
Humor, charm and gravity.

Absolutely Brilliant!

I purchased this audiobook on a whim, as a 'Dailly Deal'. Those often seem to be hit or miss, usually a miss. But not this one! The story itself is fascinating; focusing on the story of an Israeli woman, whom has inadvertently managed to become immortal. It deals with the many losses in her very long life, and questions her sanity in dealing with said immortality.

So, a very fascinating subject, helped by an outstanding narrative performance. The narration alone could easily carry this audiobook.

I highly suggest listening to this!

Incredibly Beautiful

Imaginative and beautifully writtem, this novel BB takes us through two thousand years.of immortality.

good read

Is a good average read a basic good storyline the narrator's voice was good except for the child voice in the story was nerve wracking