The best-selling author Nino Haratischwili writes so blood spurts about the chaotic 90s in Georgia.
In the autumn of 1993, there was a food shortage in Tbilisi, Georgia, due to fighting in the west of the country. It affected rail lines and the delivery of goods. These women were standing in a bread shop arguing with a man they thought had bought too much bread. Photo: Archive photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / Ap
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Published: 03/09/2023 08:00
Updated: 03/09/2023 16:21
Nino Haratischwili had his major and well-deserved international breakthrough with the brick-and-mortar novel “The Eighth Life. (To Brilka)”, which was published in Norwegian in 2021.
The epic follows a family through an entire century, from the birth of the Soviet Union to its death. Although the book is a full 1,145 pages long, it is without a single dead spot.
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2023-09-03 14:21:01
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