My Soul Twin

Nino Haratischvili (trans. Charlotte Collins)

‘The novel’s sexual voltage buoys you through its twists and turns.’

Anthony Cummins, The Observer

‘Engaging.’

Press Association

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‘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

‘Beautifully written … irresistible intensity and pace.’

Brid Conroy, Mayo News

‘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

‘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

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

‘A passionate novel.’

Matthew Janney, The Guardian

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.

Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story of forbidden love.

Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family will change the course of her ordinary life. As children, Stella and Ivo grew close as their parents embarked on an affair that would shatter both families. Later, as teenagers, their own relationship would be the cause of further scandal. Now, as adults, they set out on an odyssey to uncover the truth about another family’s past, and to understand their own.

My Soul Twin is an intense love story about forbidden desire, the ties that bind us, and whether we can ever truly forget what we leave behind.

‘The novel’s sexual voltage buoys you through its twists and turns.’

Anthony Cummins, The Observer

‘Engaging.’

Press Association

View all reviews

‘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

‘Beautifully written … irresistible intensity and pace.’

Brid Conroy, Mayo News

‘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

‘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

Praise for The Eighth Life:

Wendell Steavenson, The New York Times Book Review

Praise for The Eighth Life:

Boyd Tonkin, The Financial Times

Praise for The Eighth Life:

The New Yorker

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Format:Paperback

Size: 234mm × 153mm

Extent:320pp

ISBN (13):9781922310330

RRP:$32.99

Pub date:1 Nov 2022

Rights Held: World English

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) FICTION / Literary Fiction in translation Sagas Romance FICTION / World Literature / Germany / General FICTION / Family Life / General FICTION / Sagas

AUTHOR

Nino Haratischvili

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.

TRANSLATOR

Charlotte Collins

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.

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