![]() ![]() 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. 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. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion.Īri’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. 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. ![]() The history of China is filled with emperors and other important men who sought to live forever, but instead died an untimely death for their ambitions. This elixir is expected to grant eternal life to the person who consumes it. Using his own alchemical research, Cox then reveals secrets that have been kept hidden for millennia uncovered in his own modern-day quest to rediscover this long-sought elixir of life. The elixir of immortality (known also as the ‘elixir of life’) is a legendary substance found in many ancient cultures. ![]() Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. In The Elixir of Immortality, Robert Cox reviews the alchemical lore of these traditions and the procedures each used to produce this fabulous elixir. A mesmerizing debut novel that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history seen through the beguiling members of the Spinoza family. ![]()
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