El verano sin hombres

One day, after thirty years of seamless marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "break". An unexpected request that actually means that she has an affair with a colleague younger than her and that will make Mia suffer a crisis and be admitted to a clinic. After being discharged, she decides to return to the city of her childhood, Bonden, where she will spend an unforgettable summer while dividing her time among her mother's friends, a group of elderly women calling themselves "the Swans", and a lot of teenage girls at who teaches a poetry workshop. Summer Without Men is a humorous story of friendship between women, a feminist comedy that has become a contemporary classic and one of Siri Hustvedt's readers' favorite novels.