![]() ![]() She repeats: “my problem is I can’t die”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel made a vow to save her child in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem- and now that she has lived - FOR 2000 YEARS, she has buried thousands of children, grandchildren, and husbands. We take a two thousand year voyage with Rachel - she gives up her death in order to save her first son. “The only way this will end is if I 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.Īudiobook.read by Elizabeth Rogers! The narrator is excellent- and this book is extraordinary. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she’s tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.īut as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren-consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering-develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. ![]()
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