Juja

First published in German by Verbrecher Verlag Berlin in 2010Published for the 1st time in English, the debut novel by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives & struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is withdrawn from sale & eventually forgotten about. Then, in 2004, two women from opposite corners of the globe — Amsterdam & Sydney — rediscover Jeanne Saré's book & set out to discover who the author was & what happened to her. So many women across the ages have attached their own stories to Saré's, often with devastating results, but the truth about her may be even stranger than the fictions they have invented.°°°Nino Haratischvili was born in Georgia in 1983, & is an award-winning novelist, playwright, & theatre director. At home in 2 different worlds, each with their own language, she has been writing in both German & Georgian since the age of 12. 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 & is an international bestseller. It won the Anna Seghers Prize, the Lessing Prize Stipend, & the Bertolt Brecht Prize, & was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.Ruth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German. She has been translating fiction & nonfiction books since 2010, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth & Hannah Arendt to Volker Weidermann & Shida Bazyar.“You can see in this novel the fledgling novelist testing the reader & I can see her magnificent book Eighth Life emerging from the embers of Juja.”— Rosalind Ephraim, Bur Published for the first time in English, the sweeping debut novel set in bohemian Paris, by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about. Then, in 2004, two women from opposite corners of the globe — Amsterdam and Sydney — rediscover Jeanne Saré’s book and set out to discover who the author was and what happened to her. Women across the ages have attached their own stories to Saré’s, often with devastating results, but the truth about her may be even stranger than the fictions they have invented.