The Eighth Life

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARThe bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace.Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century.At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers, thanks to a recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter - some say cursed - aftertaste ...Tumbling through the years, across vast expanses of longing and loss, witness generation after generation of this remarkable family as they struggle and thrive, divide and reunite, and live and die in the red century.

Product details

• Authors: Nino Haratischvili
• Assisted by: Charlotte Collins (Translation), Collins Charlotte (Translation), Ruth Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.09.2020
• EAN: 9781913348298
• ISBN: 978-1-913348-29-8
• No. of pages: 934
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 200 mm x 58 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Europe, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Georgia, 20th Century, Fiction in translation, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Fiction: general & literary, Anthologies: general, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)