{"product_id":"the-eighth-life-9781950354153","title":"The Eighth Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn epic family saga beginning with the Russian Revolution and swirling across a century  encompassing war  loss  love requited and unrequited  ghosts  joy  massacres  tragedy. And hot chocolate. At the start of the twentieth century  on the edge of the Russian empire  a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe  passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north  following her new husband  Simon  to his posting at the center of the Russian Revolution in St Petersburg. Stasias is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century. Tumbling down the years  and across vast expanses of longing and loss  generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes  and shakes some more  and the reader rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn  be lost and found  and make indelible new friends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792458801205,"sku":"ByrdShop_1950354156","price":240.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781950354153.jpg?v=1784749824","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-eighth-life-9781950354153","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}