Gabi Gleichmann,Michael Meigs
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, doesnâ€™t have a son to whom to entrust the manuscript. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion.,Ariâ€™s two main sources of his familyâ€™s history are a trunk of yellowing documents inherited from his grandfather, and his great-uncle Fernandoâ€™s tales that captivated him when he was a child. He chronicles the Spinozasâ€™ involvement in some of Europeâ€™s most formative cultural events with intertwining narratives that move through ages of tyranny, creativity, and social upheaval: into medieval Portugal, Grand inquisitor Torquemadaâ€™s Spain, Rembrandtâ€™s Amsterdam, the French Revolution, Freudâ€™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 â€œthe only thing that can possibly give human beings immortality on this earth: our ability to remember.â€
Historical,Historical Fiction,Fiction,Novels,Literature,Unfinished,Adult,Religion,Esoterica,Alchemy,Adult Fiction,Judaism,Judaica
The Elixir of Immortality