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Original title: Ikuisen elämän lyhyt historia
Author: Tiina Raevaara
Published: 2024
Publisher: Otava/Like
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Pages: 318
Reading material:
English sample & synopsis, Finnish edition
The secret to longevity – why do we seek it?
A nonfiction book that brings together philosophy, biology, and memoir to explore human attempts to find immortality across science, art, and history
✓ World English, Italian, World Spanish and Dutch rights sold!
✓ A narrative non-fiction title by the award-winning popular science author
✓ Won the 2024 Helsinki Book Fair Nonfiction Jury Award
✓ For readers of Yuval Noah Harari and Rutger Bregman
Science is developing at an even faster pace, and people are living longer and longer. With what methods has humanity over time fought against aging and death, and what methods will be used in the future?
Tiina Raevaara's book weaves together the beginnings of scientific history, vampire stories, as well as the discoveries of stem cell treatment and gene editing. It dives into the cryotank and asks whether the vision of a lengthy life is still worth pursuing. If humanity accepted that they are part of all things organic - both living and dead - could we finally get rid of all the exhaustion, anxiety and need to rush?
"I found Tiina's writing both lyrical and touching. She moves beautifully between literary criticism, science, and self-reflection, and I think this is a book that readers will find moving as well as educational. Flatiron has a very strong list in the health and wellness space, as well as a more general bent toward titles that engage deeply with concepts like longevity, aging, and mortality, and I think Tiina's book would be complemented by these strengths. This project is also exactly what I'm looking for as an editor--a title that uses science (and history and literature) to wrestle with big ideas and tough concepts. I'd love to count Tiina among my authors."
Hallie Schaeffer, Associate Editor at Flatiron Books, Macmillan US
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Rights sold:
FINLAND: Otava/Like (orig.)
GERMANY: mairisch Verlag
ITALY: Adriano Salani Editore
KOREA: HAUM
NETHERLANDS: Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij
PORTUGAL: CASA DAS LETRAS
WORLD ENGLISH: Flatiron Books (Macmillan US)
WORLD SPANISH: Planeta Mexico
