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020 _a9781913348298
037 _cPurchased
_nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041 _aEnglish
082 _aF
_bNIN/EI
100 _aNino Haratischvili
245 _aEIGHTH LIFE (For Brilka)
250 _a1
260 _aLondon
_bScribe
_c2019/01/01
300 _g934
500 _a Winner of Literature Prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy 2015 (Germany) Winner of Anna Seghers Prize 2015 (Germany) Winner of Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020 (UK) Long-listed for International Booker Prize 2020 (UK) Long-listed for Dublin Literary Award 2021 (Ireland)
500 _aLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace. Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers, thanks to a recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter - some say cursed - aftertaste ... Tumbling through the years, across vast expanses of longing and loss, witness generation after generation of this remarkable family as they struggle and thrive, divide and reunite, and live and die in the red century.
650 _aFiction
650 _aFamilies
650 _aFamily secrets
650 _aInheritance and succession
650 _aRussia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg
650 _aHistorical fiction
650 _aSoviet Union
942 _cLEN
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