The Eighth Life

In this Booker Prize nominee, with STARRED Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library journal reviews, it’s the start of the 20th century, and a Georgian family prospers—owing its success to a chocolate recipe, solemnly passed down generation after generation. Voices swirl in this intergenerational epic spanning a “red” century—the Russian Revolution begins and ends, a ballet dancer never makes it to Paris, a singer longs for Austria, love is requited and unrequited. Original.