Bernard Schlink: Summer Lies

Description

A furtive night in Baden-Baden casts a couple asunder. Holiday lovers struggle with the truth of their daily lives. A conversation on a long-haul flight changes a man's life. A meeting with a long-lost love gives a widow a second chance, but can she possibly risk it? Summer Lies exposes the many faces of love: the games and betrayals, hidden truths and hidden lies that define how we live our lives. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, Summer Lies asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, what it is to be human.