He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden He placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. — Genesis 3:24
In the year 2153, immortality is no longer a gift — it is a sentence. Ivan has lived for 7,722 years. He cannot die. He cannot destroy his own body. He cannot even remember who he was. Every few centuries, his memory is erased — and a new person wakes up in the same body, carrying the weight of thousands of forgotten lives. He has been in the Correction Clinic for 799 years. He has had 36,451 corrections. He has 49 left.
Immortals is a short dystopian novel about what happens when you take away the one thing that makes us human — the right to forget, the right to remember and the right to die.
