The Eighth Life
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The Eighth Life
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Narrated by:
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Tavia Gilbert
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Written by:
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Nino Haratischvili
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Ruth Martin - translator
About this listen
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 center of the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg. 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. Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna.
Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener 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.
©2019 Nino Haratischvili (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC.
We all know that history is flawed, that it did not record the events in the right light, that it did not talk about the women who were left behind, that it did not talk about systematic oppression, and so on. The speaker of this humongous novel, Niza, talks about all that history did not mention.
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Based in Georgia primarily, the novel begins a little early from the first World War, the story closes in 2007. Niza is writing this story for her niece Barilka and keeps switching from first-person speech to omniscient narrator. She presents each character of the story as a whole. There are almost no flat characters in the book; all the characters have flaws and a capacity to love and fight for what they think shall bring peace.
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The plot, the story, narration, all otherwise brilliant, felt a bit tedious when the narrator kept describing the political on-goings. I also feel that the ending of a beautifully built story should have been more breathtaking.
Making Historical Accounts Un-bias
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The engaging story & the narration
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