Section - Literatures of the World
Author: Nino Haratischwili
Moderator: Hannah Lühmann
Following her family epic
The Eighth Life (for Brilka), Nino Haratischwili’s new novel centers around the First Chechen War: A Russian oligarch living in Berlin finds his past as a young soldier catching up with him. To settle an unpaid debt, he needs the help of a Georgian-born actress—who bears a striking resemblance to Nura, a young Chechen woman who had been tortured and murdered by the Russian military. »Nino Haratischwili is an anomaly in contemporary German literature.
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