The Leisure Seeker

A piercing novel about the last great adventure in life. Old age, in essence, isn’t so different from childhood: everyone around you knows better than you what you’re allowed and what you aren’t—and they forbid everything. The difference is that in childhood it seems there’s one long, endless celebration ahead, while in old age you see perfectly well what’s waiting for you… and decide to throw that celebration for yourself. What do children dream of? Disneyland! Great! Let’s go to Disneyland.

That’s roughly how John and Ella reason as a couple. Behind them is a wonderful life together stretching sixty years. And now they’re already over eighty, and all the good is in the past. Or not?

Why not get into the car and drive off wherever your eyes look—away from illnesses, from заботливі дорослі діти, від настирливих лікарів, та просто від старості. The last grand adventure of life, the last expedition in search of a celebration. In the end, it’s their life, their road—and only they decide where to turn at the very last moment.