{"product_id":"9780063485853","title":"The Eighth Life (For Brilka)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Devastatingly brilliant. . . . Poignant, heart-stopping, sublime.' -\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e for the twenty-first century, the internationally bestselling, award-winning multigenerational epic that begins with the Russian Revolution and spans a century-a novel of war, loss, love requited and unrequited, ghosts, joy, massacres, tragedy, and hot chocolate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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 from generation to generation with great care and caution. A caution which is justified: it is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting in St. Petersburg, the center of the Russian Revolution. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving across years and vast expanses of longing and loss, each succeeding generation of this remarkable family hears echoes and sees reflections of their past. A ballet dancer's dream of performing in Paris never comes to fruition; a singer pines for Vienna. These and other unforgettable characters engage in larger-than-life relationships that come and go and come again; their world shakes and shakes more. A grand and sweeping epic, \u003cem\u003eThe Eighth Life (for Brilka)\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those glorious classic books that readers can embrace and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the German by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperVia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57017344196981,"sku":"9780063485853","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780063485853.jpg?v=1775051478","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780063485853","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}