Noches Blancas

St. Petersburg, its light, its houses, and its avenues are the setting for this passionate novel. On one of those "white nights" that occur in the Russian city during the summer solstice, a solitary and introverted young man recounts how he accidentally meets a girl on the canal bank. After their first encounter, the pair of strangers meet for the next three nights, nights in which she, named Nastenka, recounts her sad story and in which the great passions that drive humankind—love, dreams, hope, heartbreak, and disillusionment—subtly and captivatingly make their presence felt.