EBOOK Elixir of Immortality

A mesmerizing debut novel that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history seen through the beguiling members of the Spinoza family Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, after thirty-six generations, the last descendant of this long and illustrious chain, Ari Spinoza, doesn&'t have a son to whom to entrust the manuscript. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion. Ari&'s two main sources of his family&'s history are a trunk of yellowing documents inherited from his grandfather, and his great-uncle Fernando&'s tales that captivated him when he was a child. He chronicles the Spinozas&' involvement in some of Europe&'s most formative cultural events with intertwining narratives that move through ages of tyranny, creativity, and social upheaval: into medieval Portugal, Grand inquisitor Torquemada&'s Spain, Rembrandt&'s Amsterdam, the French Revolution, Freud&'s Vienna, and the horrors of both world wars. The Elixir of Immortality blends truth and fiction as it rewrites European history through comic, imaginative, scandalous, and tragic tales that prove &';the only thing that can possibly give human beings immortality on this earth: our ability to remember.&'