Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in 1983, and is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and theatre director. Catherine Howard, (born c. 1524died February 13, 1542, London, England), fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England. 1937: a terrible suicide, terror and arrests. Almost 1,000 pages, over 100 years. The author's words are liquid so that one flows through this long novel. The fate of the Jashis seems to be a mirror for the fate of Georgia. As in 900 pages covering generations of a single family, of the remarkable events and amazing women, in particular, who defined this lineage from the Bolshevik occupation of the country to the early twenty-first century. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2020, Nino Haratischvilis The Eighth Life is a multi-generational saga focusing on a Georgian family and written by Niza Jashi for her 12 year-old niece, Brilka, which spans six generations of the Jashi family, the first of whom is Niza's great-great-grandfather, a master chocolatier whose secret recipe for a hot chocolate drink is so addictive that it must be used sparingly in order to avert totally enslavement. They had four children together Arthur, Margaret, Mary, and Henry. Her huge novel shows a double face, its crushing pain and loss nonetheless conveyed with an artful storytellers sheer joy in her craft. Boyd Tonkin, The Financial Times, No doubt Nino Haratischwili is one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature. Die Zeit, [T]his sprawling epic of love and loss The Eighth Life is an expansive and hopeful tale centered on family touched by war and revolution. Foreword Reviews, It is an ambitious undertaking, but the author retains a firm grasp on her material and knows exactly how she wishes to present the human cost and consequences to a family facing war and colliding ideologies I finished by applauding the vision, boldness and passionate commitment. Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail, Sometimes I wonder how many people harbor a secret desire to write a book about their familys entire history. Very talented author, brilliant book and good translation into English. Other translations include Seethalers The Tobacconist, Homeland by Walter Kempowski, and Olga by Bernhard Schlink. We enjoyed being the giants favorite child, one character admits. If its not my all-time favourite novel (and it might be) then it must be in the top three or four. Who Needs a Sweeping Epic About the Red Century? This is a long novel, but it never feels slow. A little over 900 pages but once you get into it it's very hard to put down. The big hands of history scoop up futures and throw them away. Family Trees: Succession in Henry VIII's will November 30, 2018; Family Tree: The House of Tudor June 6, 2017; The Family de la Pole October 17, 2016; Maps Articles. At first sight, Haratischvilis novel The Eighth Life looks like a big old-fashioned airport blockbuster, complete with book-jacket superlatives: Sweeping! She sits at the top of the British royal family tree, boasting four children, eight . I learned a lot about Russian history along with an incredible family saga. It also speaks to the resilience of the Georgian people, while sharing the rhythms and concerns and opportunities of their everyday lives during the peak, the decline, and the fall of their occupier. It is the story of a people living and thriving and struggling to survive through wars and in the grip of a totalitarian empire. Both are justified, the story of a family, a country, a centuryis an imaginative, expansive, and important read., If its a family saga youre seeking, look no further than this grand tale The author gracefully interweaves the historical backdrop of her novel with the lives of her characters, thus adding depth to her story. , Screen Reader But just as I was jotting the familiar tropes ripping yarn, fairy tale and soap opera in my critics notebook, something rather extraordinary happened. : It is perhaps for this reason that reading Nino Haratischwilis, , translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, feels so familiar, almost like a wish fulfilled, has deservedly been compared to Tolstoys. Ruth is currently co-chair of the Society of Authors Translators Association. A real page turner. Now-King Charles. You will not want to put it down. You will not want to put it down. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Looks exactly like footnote font sizingI get wanting to cut costs in terms of paper, but wow. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII. The ease with which the story skips back and forth; the asides from the narrator (Niza herself not born during most of the story she narrates) to the young Brilka in the present day; the leitmotif of the chocolate it utterly breathtaking. It is moving, sincere, powerfully told. Prince Harry is the sixth in line to the British throne. At home in two different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021. Simply put, The Eighth Life is Georgias Gone with the Wind. Words Without Borders, Once I finished this amazing family tale, the gold is worn off the cover in places, but the memories that made for a story told well will remain with me. Highly recommend. , Word Wise [A]n epica magnificent, sprawling family saga that captures the suffering and pride of the Georgian people throughout the tumult of the twentieth century. Simply the best! In 2010, her debut novel, Juja, was nominated for the German Book Prize, as was Die Katze und der General in 2018. Haratischvili has created a fascinating cast (and its easy to imagine it as a television series) whose lives illuminate some of the greatest events of the 20th century. Declan ODriscoll, The Irish Times, Elegant it demonstrates a technical mastery, impressively sustained The Eighth Life is more than a family saga: it is an ode, a lamentation, a monumentto Georgia, its people, its past and future. Bryan Karetnyk, TLS, The Eighth Life is capacious, voluble, urgent, readable, translated heroically and sparklingly by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin. Julian Evans, The Telegraph, Spanning six generations of a family between 1900 and the 21st century, its characters travel to Tbilisi, Moscow, London and Berlin in an epic story of doomed romance that combines humor with magic realism. Marta Bausells, The Guardian, Ten of the best new books in translation, Nino Haratischvili's elegant epic is a triumph of both authorship and painstaking translation The Eighth Life is an unforgettable love letter to Georgia and the Caucasus, to lives led and to come, and to writing itself. The Economist, The Eighth Life is a lavish banquet of family stories that can, for all their sorrows, be devoured with gluttonous delight. , Publication date Pages are crisp and bright. Instead there were two moments, one after another, of delicately wrought sacrifice. Trevin Wax encourages you to rethink some of our societys most common assumptions about identity and the road to happiness. We have romance, intrigue, torture, rape, spies and so much more in these thousand odd pages as we are taken through the 20th Century and up unto 2007, where it will be Brilkas turn to grow up and experience what happens to her own country, whilst having to struggle with her own personal life choices. Not only it gives you a unique perspective on the history of 20th century from the one of a lesser known countries - Georgia. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! The Eighth Life is a terrible reminder of repetitive patterns in history. This is an amazing book. We begin in the Eden of the before: Young Stasia, Nizas great-grandmother, dreams of ballet dancing, rides her Kabardin horses with abandon, is wooed by a dashing lieutenant. : Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. The Eighth Life is a stunning historical lesson of life. Stasias 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. Henry VIII is known for his six wives and for being the father of Elizabeth I, but he's less well-known for his ancestors, despite them being pretty wacky too. I felt part of this family as I traveled with them through time and history; as they shared with me all the threads of their woven carpet, generations old I loved this amazing book. Shannon Alden, Literati Bookstore, Its definitely the best work of fiction I've read in the last year. John Leake, Novel Bookstore, The scope is Tolstoyan: the drama of War and Peace, the emotion of Anna Karenina A sprinkling of Allendesque magic realism is added, along with a handful of spirits and a secret recipe for delicious and addictive hot chocolate that appears to curse those who drink it. Lizzy Siddal, The Riveter, The Eighth Life is capacious, voluble, urgent, readable, translated heroically and sparklingly by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin. Julian Evans, Stuff, If you only read one book this year make sure it is The Eighth Life Intricately crafted and addictive, The Eighth Life is an extraordinary, dramatic and compelling read The ambitious, vivid and unflinching translation from the original German by Ruth Martin and Charlotte Collins is in itself a work of art, and deserves to win every translation prize going. BookBlast, [A] generational saga of 20th-century Georgia with the drama and grandeur to be Georgias Gone With the Wind. Lit Hub, Everybody requires a new, vigorous narrative of European ideals, of the European past Nino Haratischwili has created this narrative in her new novel. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Nino Haratischwili has written a great book: a book which ranges over a century and half of the globe; a book however, within whichas in the infants experienceeverything is only love and dread. Nino Haratischvilis characters come to exuberant life. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2020. If its not my all-time favourite novel (and it might be) then it must be in the top three or four. Stunning novel. Building a Family. Her huge novel shows a double face, its crushing pain and loss nonetheless conveyed with an artful storytellers sheer joy in her craft., No doubt Nino Haratischwili is one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature., is an expansive and hopeful tale centered on family touched by war and revolution., It is an ambitious undertaking, but the author retains a firm grasp on her material and knows exactly how she wishes to present the human cost and consequences to a family facing war and colliding ideologies I finished by applauding the vision, boldness and passionate commitment., Sometimes I wonder how many people harbor a secret desire to write a book about their familys entire history. : At home in two different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. The early chapters are full of portents as we await the arrival of the events we know will shatter the idyll. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? It is definitely a view of life behind the Iron Curtain and eventually, of a people emerging from a century of domination. History of Russia through the eyes of Women, Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2020. Catherine was one of 10 children of Lord Edmund Howard (died 1539), a poverty-stricken younger son of Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, around 1950. The hundred years span the Great October Socialist Revolution, Stalins purges, the Great Patriotic War, the Czech uprisings, Perestroika, Georgian Independence and all the political turmoil in between. The development of the characters is very careful, detailed, and logical. Civil war, ethnic wars, banditry on the street, heroin. This is probably my best book of the year. The Eighth Life, Haratischvilis third novel, won several literary awards in Germany, where the author has lived since 2003, and has been a best seller in translation in several countries. , has been translated into many languages and is an international bestseller. Nothing feels forced, nothing feels flashy. Very talented author, brilliant book and good translation into English. She has taught translation at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school, and is a former co-chair of the Society of Authors Translators Association. Author: Nino Haratischvili Title: The Eighth Life (for Brilka) Niza writes, like her author, from the vantage of an expatriate in Germany. The writing is rich and the characters full-blooded. At the start of the 20th century, a Russian family prospers. Henry VII's wife, Elizabeth of York, was twenty years old when the two were married in 1486; Henry VII was . House of Wessex. The world fell away and I fell, wholly, happily, into the book My breath caught in my throat, tears nestled in my lashes devastatingly brilliant. Wendell Steavenson, The New York Times Book Review, This multigenerational epic offers not only a critique of Soviet and Russian imperial ambitions but a necessary reappraisal of Georgian history. The New Yorker, [A]n exceptional, deeply evocative saga of an elite Georgian family as they endure the 20th centurys political upheavals, from before the Bolshevik Revolution through the post-Soviet era In heartfelt prose, Haratischvili seamlessly weaves the political upheaval around the characters into the love and loss in their lives. It also has got the characters which would stay with me for long time. Each turbulent event forms its own story, but the Jashi line continues through the process, impacted by the waves from previous events. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. No markings or highlighting. 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