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The Eighth Life - (for Brilka) The International Bestseller (Paperback, Uk Export Edition)
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The Eighth Life - (for Brilka) The International Bestseller (Paperback, Uk Export Edition)
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE
WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. '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.
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