A page-turning epic of loss and redemption in the vein of Rebecca Makkai?s The Great Believers and Elena Ferrante?s Neapolitan novels, about a group of four women who formed a deep friendship in the turbulent years leading up to and after Georgia?s independence from the Soviet Union.As the turbulent twentieth-century nears its end, calls for independence grow increasingly louder in the Soviet Georgia. During this period of great upheaval, childhood friends Keto, Dina, Nene, and Ira grow up in one of the many ?Italian courtyards? that define Tbilisi?s Sololaki neighborhood. The four girls are as different as can be: Dina, the rebellious, daughter of an unconventional mother; Ira, the clever outsider; Nene, the romantic, and niece of the most powerful criminal in the city; and Keto, the sensitive, motherless waif. Rising up to challenges both personal and political ?a first...
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