Description from Goodreads
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.
My Thoughts On The Book
The Endless Summer is one of those books you probably need to be in the right mindset to read and not pick up on a whim (you need to be mentally alert to read it). There's something dream-like about the book and how the story unfolds, with a circular narrative. The Endless Summer is all about tone, language, and mood in a way.
The way it's written, it's a sensuous elegiac reflection of love, hedonism, time, gender, art, sexuality, and death, all evolving around a Danish family. It's not a book for everyone, but if you're into some beautifully written prose, but with some characters you feel you can't quite grasp due to the dream-like vibe of the book, feel free to read The Endless Summer.
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