Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in 1983, and is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and theatre director. At home in two different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German and Georgian since the age of twelve. In 2010, her debut novel, Juja, was nominated for the German Book Prize, as was Die Katze und der General in 2018. Her third novel, The Eighth Life, has been translated into many languages and is an international bestseller. It won the Anna Seghers Prize, the Lessing Prize Stipend, and the Bertolt Brecht Prize, and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. She lives in Berlin. Charlotte Collins studied English Literature at Cambridge University and worked as an actor and radio journalist in Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. Her co-translation, with Ruth Martin, of Nino Haratischvili’sThe Eighth Life won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and in 2017 she was awarded the Goethe-Institut’s Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life. Other translations include Seethaler’s The Tobacconist, Homeland by Walter Kempowski, and Olga by Bernhard Schlink.<p>‘A passionate novel.’</p>
- Matthew Janney, The Guardian
<p>‘The novel’s sexual voltage buoys you through its twists and turns.’</p>
- Anthony Cummins, The Observer
<p>‘Engaging.’</p>
Press Association
<p>‘Beautifully written … irresistible intensity and pace.’</p>
- Brid Conroy, Mayo News
<p>‘<em>My Soul Twin</em> 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.’</p>
The Herald
<p>‘A beautifully written, complex love story … the modern twists and complexities are so interesting and told with forthright energy and compassion.’</p>
- Adele Parks, Platinum Magazine
<p>‘<i>My Soul Twin</i> is full of life and energy, authentic and to the point.’</p>
Welt online
<p>‘A love affair like a suicide commando. A novel like a gathering place for the world’s tears.’</p>
Kulturspiegel