Who Wants to Live Forever

What if you had the chance to remain at your exact age for the next thirty years? What if you could extend your life potentially forever? Would you have a new lease on life, literally, and do the things you never thought you''d have time to do? Would you be more or less ambitious because you knew time was on your side? Would ''growing old together'' with the person you love still mean something? It''s 2023 and the NHS is on the verge of being privatized. As a result, Yareta, a drug that could hold the key to immortality, is poised to enter the global market. The wonder drug''s charismatic creator, Frank Walker (73 years old going on 43), believes it has the potential to be a silver bullet for humanity and the world over. By extending one''s life by thirty years and possibly longer, Yareta would give every individual the chance to unlock their true potential and, as a social good, ease national health services around the world by delaying the onset of old age. It would even give us the chance to tackle the climate crisis-right? With its global sensibility and intersecting cast of unforgettable characters, WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER is poses compelling questions about what it means to live a good, fulfilled life, even as it offers scathing critiques of the socioeconomic disparity plaguing our global healthcare systems. With a masterful voice and worldbuilding, this is novel is both contemporary and timeless in its universal concerns, full of nuance and zeitgeisty, chewy ideas.

Vorwort
What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?

Autorentext
Hanna Thomas Uose is a British Japanese writer living in London. In 2023, she completed the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour and was shortlisted for the Orion/DHA Space to Write Project. She was also selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme. Hanna has spent the last sixteen years working in advocacy and campaigns with organisations such as 350.org, Free Tibet, Greenpeace International, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Level Up, Liberty, and UN Global Pulse.

Klappentext

Yuki and Sam are soulmates.
They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together.
They are supposed to love one another, forever.

But when a miracle drug is created which can extend a human's life, indefinitely, Sam decides to live forever, rather than love Yuki forever.

What comes next is a time-bending, decades-long, world building epic set across the globe narrated by an intersecting cast of characters.

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER is greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after.