Song for Brica
by (germany) Nino Haratishvili
About This Novel
In Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century, a chocolate factory owner concocted a mysterious formula that was said to bring bliss but also contained a curse. The ultimate sweetness and bone-gnawing bitterness will entangle the fate of six generations of women in a family - from Tbilisi in the Tsarist era, to the Iron Curtain years of the Soviet Union, to wandering and separation during the Cold War. They were lovers in the revolution, mothers in the war, victims in the labor camps, and exiles in the shadow of the Cold War. Some people are burned by love, some are betrayed by ideals, and some remain silent and forbearing in the cracks of history. The family's last hope, the rebellious girl Brica, took a tuna sandwich and a train ticket to Vienna to find the song copyright left by her great-grandmother, her hero. She hopes to be redeemed and find an answer to the bottomless hole in her heart. Men go crazy in history, women write in the ruins. During revolution, war and exile, they used their memories to stitch together their broken homes.
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