
The Eighth Life
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Tavia Gilbert
At the start of the 20th 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 center 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 the red century.
Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.
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S Very good read
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Amazing book
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5 generations of the Yoshi family live through the entire last century. So, it is both education and informational and most of all, it pulls the heart’s strings. The book is very well written - I could not put it down!
An amazing tale of love and life
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Amazing novel, ok narration, and mispronounced names and places
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Great story, good performance
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The eight life
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The reader did a good job in general, but I was disappointed that she made no effort to pronounce Georgian words or names correctly. This was distracting for me as someone who studied the language, in part because Georgian is very easy to grasp; it wouldn’t have taken much effort to figure out how to pronounce Giorgi, the most popular name in Georgia.
I did enjoy the trip through time and the Georgian perspective, which is so often lumped in with Russia. This poor country has suffered so much, as these characters will attest to, which made for a very depressive read.
Engaging but a little flat
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Found the narrator did an outstanding job of managing different voices and characters.
A solid 4.5 stars
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wow!!
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Not sure how I feel about this…
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