Heaven on Earth

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In this valuable novel, Fadi Zaghmout puts a personal face to the world we are all longing for (some of us more secretly than others). It is an interesting and realistic read, showing humanity as it has always been but with a new dawn of life where the infirmity of old age is a choice. – Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation

Synopsis:

The year: sometime in the 2090s. The location: Jordan. Aging is reversible thanks to major advances in bioscience and nanotechnology. But in a world where eternal youth has become a reality, complications arise. Journalist Janna Abdallah is at the forefront of these changes: her brother Jamal contributed to many of the medical advances that have brought such profound changes to humanity over the past few decades, yet he has chosen to forego age suppression in order to experience a natural death. Because reproduction is strictly regulated, the opportunity to create new life throws the Abdallah family into turmoil. Fadi Zaghmout’s best-selling debut novel The Bride of Amman was groundbreaking for its intimate, sympathetic treatment of women’s issues, homosexuality, and marriage in the Middle East. Heaven on Earth is no less revolutionary, at once a searingly personal account of one family’s struggle to embrace the future that is now, and also a look at the way Jordanian society has had to reimagine itself at the end of the twenty-first century.

Fadi Zaghmout’s Heaven on Earth presents a fascinating vision of a future world devoid of the aging process, merging many themes, including technological, social, and legal that researchers, investors, regulators, and legislators, in today’s day and age, must grapple with in lieu of the unavoidable paradigm shift that will be arriving – a must read for anyone involved directly or tangentially in the age-reversal scientific community. — Ira S. Pastor, CEO BioQuark Inc., Rejuvenation Biotechnology Company

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صدور طبعة جديدة من رواية جنّة على الأرض مع دار الأهلية للنشر والتوزيع

جنّة وجيهان وجمال وزيد، أبطال يعيشون صراعات تتعلّق بوقائع جديدة أنتجها التطوّر العلمي الهائل: البقاء في مرحلة الشباب الدائم، العودة إلى الطفولة مع محو الذاكرة من أجل صنع حياة جديدة. إعادة استنساخ لأحبّاء فُقدوا… ومسائل أخرى لن تكون جزءًا من الخيال، بل ستصبح قريبًا واقعًا لا مفرّ منه. تتصارع الرغبات وتتناحر الشخصيّات، لتؤكّد هذه الرواية أنّ الإنسان هو الإنسان، وأنّ الأجيال نفسها تشرب من الكأس نفسه

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Paradiso in Terra

Giordania, 2090. L’invecchiamento è diventato un fenomeno reversibile grazie agli incredibili progressi della biotecnologia. Eppure, persino in un mondo dove l’eterna giovinezza è una realtà, continuano a esserci complicazioni. Jamal Abdallah, fratello della giornalista Janna, protagonista della storia, ha contribuito a molti dei progressi medici che hanno allungato l’aspettativa di vita dell’umanità negli ultimi decenni, e tuttavia proprio lui ha scelto di rinunciare alla possibilità dell’eterna giovinezza per morire in modo naturale. Ma poiché la riproduzione è strettamente controllata, l’opportunità di creare una nuova vita – in seguito alla morte di Jamal – getta l’intera famiglia Abdallah nello scompiglio.
Paradiso in Terra è al tempo stesso un resoconto personale della lotta di una famiglia per abbracciare il futuro e uno sguardo sul modo in cui la società giordana ha dovuto reinventare se stessa alla fine del ventunesimo secolo.

Fadi Zaghmout è un autore giordano e attivista per l’uguaglianza di genere. Ha conseguito un master in scrittura creativa e pensiero critico presso la Sussex University nel Regno Unito. Ha pubblicato quattro romanzi, tra cui La sposa di Amman (MReditori, 2022). Le sue opere sono state tradotte in inglese, francese e italiano. Nel 2021, è stato tra i finalisti dello UK Alumni Global Award nella categoria “impatto sociale”.

Traduzione dall’arabo di Roberta Loi
Illustrazione di copertina di Paolo Castelluccio

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