Tumbling down the years, great characters and greater relationships come and go, in Nino Haratischvili’s compelling epic family drama
Nino Haratischvili
Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in 1983, and is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and theatre director
At home in two different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. In 2010, her debut novel Juja was nominated for the German Book Prize, as was her most recent Die Katze und der General in 2018. In its German edition, The Eighth Life was a bestseller, and won the Anna Seghers Prize, the Lessing Prize Stipend, and the Bertolt Brecht Prize 2018.
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