A Brief History of Living Forever: The audacious new novel from the author of Spaceman of Bohemia

Ambitious, exciting . . . Kalfar knows his way around a sentence. By turns aphoristic and lyrical, with touches of Don DeLillo, Kalfar's prose contains plenty of stylish wisdom . . . Mixing fantasy, satire, horror and metaphysics, A Brief History has many stories to tell. But the pulse animating each of them is the shock of sudden loss – of jobs, of loved ones, of a world you thought you knew