The novel “Summer” is a sun-drenched town on the seashore, a bar with a terrace, the delights of French cuisine, a bartender who subtly senses the essence of what is happening and, of course, a beautiful stranger. The romantic picture is completed by a colorful “gallery of portraits” of people who are far from ideal: real people, made of flesh and blood, with their weaknesses and passions, with virtues and vices, with dreams and their own view of the world... The story itself, told by the author, is fascinatingly simple and completely unthinkable: this is a love story that lasts one summer, and at the same time - a whole life. The absolute unpredictability of the denouement (coupled with its complete psychological validity) does not allow us to say anything about the plot except that it is extremely unbanal.