From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In After the Season, a man falls quickly in love with a woman he meets on the beach but wrestles with his incongruous feelings of betrayal after he learns shes rich. In Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen, a son tries to put his resentment toward his emotionally distant father behind him by proposing a trip to a Back festival but soon realizes, during his efforts to reconnect, that it wasnt his father who was the distant one.
