If you love Monterey Bay and good books please stay away from this one. It will leave you sad and depressed, and maybe even upset. I was especially offended by the fact that the author chose to involve a character of Doc based on a real person in the affair with the minor: bad taste.

A fiction book that reads like a nonfiction, very unusual, almost like a self help book for people living in loving relationships. I learned more about my marriage from this book than about the main characters. My best read in 2016.

A beautifully written novel about life in 1960s Poland through the eyes of an 18-year-old young intellectual boy who falls in love with his French teacher. Suspense, with many literary references and allusions.
I enjoyed it both in original Polish and in great English translation. It reminds me of my dreams of France when I lived behind the Iron Curtain.