A review by lory_enterenchanted
The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili

Finally got through this long, absorbing but very dark and tragic historical epic. For me it picked up in the last 100 pages when the narrator finally got to the period of her own life. As a bearer of family trauma, generational and national trauma, she becomes the recording angel of unbearable, unspeakable things, attempting to pass them on in a way that will not stifle but give impetus to an unknown future.