"A passionate novel." --Matthew Janney, The Guardian "The novel's sexual voltage buoys you through its twists and turns." --Anthony Cummins, The Observer "[A]n intriguing Wuthering Heights-inflected premise." --Publishers Weekly "In this fraught tale of how the sins of the parents haunt and punish their offspring, the tension and sadness are almost too much to bear. Billed as a modern-day Wuthering Heights." --Library Journal "Haratischvili brings out the frightening intensity of the relationship between Stella and Ivo and Stella's falling apart when Ivo returns . [and] gives us a detailed portrait of a woman confronting her demons." --The Modern Novel "Engaging.
" --Press Association "Beautifully written . irresistible intensity and pace." -- Brid Conroy, Mayo News "A beautifully written, complex love story . the modern twists and complexities are so interesting and told with forthright energy and compassion." --Adele Parks, Platinum Magazine "My Soul Twin is full of life and energy, authentic and to the point." --Welt online "A love affair like a suicide commando. A novel like a gathering place for the world's tears." --Kulturspiegel "My Soul Twin has an undeniable power and strong ideas .
an affecting work, examining love, guilt and overcoming trauma through a couple's touching need to heal their broken childhood." --The Herald Praise for The Eighth Life: "Something rather extraordinary happened. The world fell away and I fell, wholly, happily, into the book . My breath caught in my throat, tears nestled in my lashes . devastatingly brilliant." --Wendell Steavenson, The New York Times Book Review Praise for The Eighth Life: "The Eighth Life . is a lavish banquet of family stories that can, for all their sorrows, be devoured with gluttonous delight. Nino Haratischvili's characters .
come to exuberant life. Her huge novel . shows a double face, its crushing pain and loss nonetheless conveyed with an artful storyteller's sheer joy in her craft." --Boyd Tonkin, The Financial Times Praise for The Eighth Life: "Georgia, a picturesque nation squeezed between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, was once considered a wine-soaked playground for the Soviet upper crust. This multigenerational epic, framed as a gift from the embittered narrator, Niza, to her wayward niece, provides a more nuanced view. It begins with Niza's bourgeois great-grandmother, whose dream of becoming a ballerina is derailed by Lenin's revolution. Her descendants are likewise transformed by upheavals of the twentieth century: Stalinist purges, the Second World War, the Prague Spring, Georgia's independence, and the subsequent civil war. Through these events, the novel offers not only a critique of Soviet and Russian imperial ambitions but a necessary reappraisal of Georgian history.
" --The New Yorker.