The book by Bernhard Schlink, the celebrated author of The Reader, is seven captivating love stories under the general title “Summer Deceptions.” A conversation between fellow travelers during a multi-hour flight, a single night in Baden-Baden, a short holiday romance - will this be the beginning of a new life or will it forever remain just a romantic memory? Together with Schlink's heroes, the reader discovers different facets of love, with all its petty betrayals and omissions, resentments and jealousy, self-deception, white lies and ineradicable memory of the heart. Time and again we are convinced of the fragility of happiness and the tenacity of hope. Written in a restrained, simple and noble manner, which has long become Schlink’s “trademark”, “Summer Deceptions” is an attempt to answer the question of what it means to love, what deception is and how difficult it is to always remain human.