About the book: 1964 / They walked holding hands and not saying a word. The May sun played on the foam-covered waves of the sea, and the air itself seemed to exude a radiance. The young man was twenty-two years old, the girl was seventeen. At that age, you always imagine that life has nothing but incomparable joys in store for you. They loved each other as long as they could remember, and even then they had no doubt that he would have no other wife, and she would have no other wife. The young man had just returned from the army, the girl had graduated from school...