Research Catalog

Title

The eighth life (for Brilka) / Nino Haratischvili ; translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin.

Author

Haratischwili, Nino, 1983-

Publication

Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Collins, Charlotte, 1967-
• Martin, Ruth (Translator)

Description

934 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.' At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste ... Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the centre of the Russian Revolution in St Petersburg. Stasia's is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century. Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the reader rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends."--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Achte Leben (für Brilka). English

Alternative Title

Achte Leben (für Brilka).

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Families > Fiction
• Inheritance and succession > Fiction
• Family secrets > Fiction
• Chocolate > Fiction
• Inheritance and succession
• Family secrets
• Families
• Chocolate
• Georgia > History > 20th century > Fiction
• Soviet Union > History > Fiction
• Soviet Union
• Georgia

Genre/Form

• German fiction – Translations into English.
• Domestic fiction.
• Fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• History.

Note

• "Originally published as Das achte Leben (Für Brilka) in German by Frankfurter Verglagsanstalt GmbH in 2014"--Title page verso.

Access (note)

• National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Awards (note)

• Winner, Literature Prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy, 2015 ; Winner, Anna Seghers Prize, 2015.

Call Number

JFE 20-4980

ISBN

• 9781911617464
• 191161746X
• 9781925713329
• 1925713326
• 9781950354153
• 1950354156
• 9781950354146
• 1950354148
• 9781911617471
• 1911617478
• 9781925693072 (canceled/invalid)
• 1925693074 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1121207663

Author

Haratischwili, Nino, 1983- author.

Title

The eighth life (for Brilka) / Nino Haratischvili ; translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin.

Publisher

Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Digital File Characteristics

text file EPUB 1.1MB

Restricted Access

National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization. star AU-CaNED

Language

Translated from the German.

Awards

Winner, Literature Prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy, 2015 ; Winner, Anna Seghers Prize, 2015.

Connect to:

National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia

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Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Collins, Charlotte, 1967- translator.

Martin, Ruth (Translator), translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4980