Eternal Life

By: Dara Horn

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

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

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!

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