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The Eighth Life

✍ Scribed by Nino Haratischvili

Book ID
112051322
Publisher
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
638 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781925693072

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.'

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 centre of the Russian Revolution in St Petersburg. 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...

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