The Summer Guest A Novel.

The translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Alison Anderson, delivers a remarkable literary novel-with a stunning conclusion-inspired by historical events, in which a diary weaves together the lives of three women: a dying Ukranian doctor who befriends Anton Chekov in the 19th century, a modern-day London book editor, and the woman she hires to translate it into English. During 1888, illness forces a young Ukranian doctor, Zinaida Mikhailovn...