Love, the search for love, the desire for love... Three summers in the dazzling light of Attica, three blossoming sisters, Maria, Infanta, and Katerina. Maria, the eldest, sensual, close to the mysteries of nature; Infanta, fiery yet restrained in the face of love; Katerina, thirsty for independence, who chooses the dream.

For her, myth becomes reality, like the mysterious figures of the Polish grandmother and Captain Andreas. Katerina recounts these three summers with imagination, humor, and boundless tenderness, with a youthful grace that already carries a tone of nostalgia.

A captivating book, filled with enthusiasm, that keeps the reader pleasantly uneasy, just as one feels in the presence of feminine mystery. The straw hats were first published in 1946 and in Paris in 1950 by Gallimard Editions under the title Trois Etes. Camus wrote then: "The sun has disappeared from today's books. That is why they do us harm instead of helping us. However, the secret is preserved in certain places, passed from one initiate to another..."