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ALT Cover of The Lack of Light: b/w photo of a woman pushing aside a net curtain to look out of a tall window. The title lettering is in a delicate pale lilac-yellow-turquoise wash.
ALT Black and white photo of a woman halfway up an old-fashioned staircase, looking up. Over it, white text reads: "The Lack of Light is an immersive, sweeping epic set against the backdrop of Tbilisi, 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."
ALT Black-and-white close-up photo of Nino Haratischwili, looking straight down the lens and framing her face with both hands. She has striking features, with pale skin, dark eyes, hair and eyebrows, and dark lipstick. The text at the bottom reads: "Nino Haratischwili was born in Tbilisi and is an acclaimed and award-winning novelist and dramatist, and among the most important authors of contemporary German literature. Her international bestseller "The Eighth Life (for Brilka)" was translated into thirty languages and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Haratischwili lives in Berlin."
ALT Close-up colour photos of Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, both white women with dark brown hair. The text reads: "From the note on the translation: 'It is perhaps surprising how rarely literary works take supportive female friendship as their central theme, and in the "The Lack of Light" it is absolutely fundamental. It feels apt that, in the making of this translation, our own friendship and ongoing collaboration have become part of the book's journey into English.'"
ALT Cover of the book. Very blue.
ALT An orange cat is smiling a little