Eternal Life

Dara Horn

Jan 2018 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

A story of a woman who makes a vow to God in order to save the life of her young son that forces her to live forever as repayment of her vow. A beautifully written novel and intriguing in both philosophy and form. The story told here is a timeless one, about love and loss, birth and death, destruction and rebirth. This would be a perfect book for any book club to review as there are so many deep threads, ideas and concepts to explore. Very well written with many historical elements brought up in this book that were fascinating, and the story ending was exactly what it should have been. A solid 5 star rating for sure.