From the translator of The Elegance Of The Hedgehog comes a sophisticated, atmospheric novel, evocative of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, in which the fates of three remarkable women—and legendary Russian writer Anton Chekhov—become entwined across two centuries because of a recently-discovered diary. Inspired by the real friendship between Chekhov and the Lintvaryov family, landowners in the Ukraine, The Summer Guest is a masterful narrative that recreates a vanished world.