“The Endless Summer” Book Discussion | Green Apple Books

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join Madame Nielsen in the book discussion of their new novel, ‘The Endless Summer’. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation.

About The Endless Summer:

A passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and Lars Von Trier.

Emotional and visceral, the novel drifts through time and space, relating the lives, loves, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple: the woman’s former husband, who holds the family at gunpoint; her daughter and her lovers, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America; and the young boy who “is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it,” who narrates everyone’s stories.

Propelled by a captivating story, the real charm of the novel resides in its impeccable style and atmosphere, which gathers a sense of longing, a slight nostalgia for times that ache with possibility, while knowing that even the endless summer doesn’t last forever.

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