Eighth Life

The international sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation’s War and Peace.



At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers, thanks to a magical recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter — some say cursed — aftertaste … Tumbling through the years, across vast expanses of longing and loss, we witness generation after generation of this remarkable family as they struggle and thrive, divide and reunite, and live and die in the red century.

Senzatia internationala pe care librarii din Marea Britanie o numesc Razboiul si pacea acestei generatii. La inceputul secolului al XX-lea, la marginea Imperiului Rus, o familie prospera, datorita unei retete magice de ciocolata fierbinte care ii vrajeste pe bautori. Dar aceasta ciocolata are un gust amar - unii spun blestemati ... Daramandu-se de-a lungul anilor, pe intinderi vaste de dor si pierdere, asistam generatie dupa generatie a acestei familii remarcabile in timp ce se lupta si se dezvolta, se impart si se reunesc, secolul rosu.