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1969-й, Нью-Йорк. В Нижнем Ист-Сайде распространился слух о появлении таинственной гадалки, которая умеет предсказывать день смерти. Четверо юных Голдов, от семи до тринадцати лет, решают узнать грядущую судьбу. Когда доходит очередь до Вари, самой старшей, гадалка, глянув на ее ладонь, говорит: «С тобой все будет в порядке, ты умрешь в 2044-м». На улице Варю дожидаются мрачные братья и сестра. В последующие десятилетия пророчества начинают сбываться. Судьбы детей окажутся причудливы. Саймон Голд сбежит в Сан-Франциско, где с головой нырнет в богемную жизнь. Клара после встречи с гадалкой с каждым годом все глубже будет погружаться в мечты, желая преодолеть грань между фантазией и реальностью. Дэниэл станет военным врачом, и жизнь он будет вести размеренную, пока не вмешается та самая судьба. Варя посвятит себя изучению проблемы бессмертия, балансируя между наукой и вымыслом. Удивительной глубины роман о связи неизбежности и свободы выбора, о переплетении иллюзии и реальности, о силе семейных связей и силах, их разрывающих.

If you were told the date of your death, how would it shape your present? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.

"Human beings are more productive than ever before, but they're also unhappier. They feel oppressed by the limits of their lives: the boredom, the repetition, the fatigue. What if you could use your sleep to do more—to receive all of the traditional regenerative benefits while problem-solving, healing, even experiencing alternate worlds? Wouldn't you be capable of extraordinary things?" So asks Dr. Adrian Keller, a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming. Keller is headmaster of a boarding school in Northern California where Sylvie Patterson, a student, falls in love with a spirited classmate named Gabe. Over the next six years, Gabe and Sylvie become increasingly involved in Keller's work, following him from the redwood forests of Eureka, CA to the coast of New England. But when Keller receives a commission from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sylvie and Gabe stumble into a tangled, dangerous relationship with their intriguing neighbors, and Sylvie begins to doubt the ethics of Keller's research. As she navigates the hazy, permeable boundaries between what is real and what isn't, who can be trusted and who cannot, Sylvie also faces surprising developments in herself: an unexpected infatuation, growing paranoia and a new sense of rebellion. Both a coming-of-age story and an exploration of the subconscious mind, THE ANATOMY OF DREAMS explores the murky landscape of the human psyche and the fine line that defines our moral boundaries.