Das achte Leben (Für Brilka)

"A solitaire in contemporary German literature." Deutschlandfunk This novel has come over the literary world like a natural phenomenon: a powerful family epic, which tells the whole of the plump 20th century with all its upheavals and dramas, catastrophes and miracles, using the example of six generations of extraordinary women. Nino Haratishvili spans the globe from Georgia on the eve of the First World War to Germany at the beginning of the new millennium. It all begins with Stasia, daughter of a respected chocolate manufacturer. Her birth marks the beginning of the story, which from then on moves through Europe like a mighty river with countless side arms and swirls, trapping the reader in its maelstrom until the last page. An unforgettable, overwhelming reading experience.