Love, the search for love, the desire for love... Three summers in the brilliant light of Attica, three sisters in their bloom, Maria, Infanta, and Katerina. Maria, the eldest, sensual and close to the mysteries of nature; Infanta, fiery but restrained in the face of love; Katerina, thirsty for independence, who chooses the dream. For her, myth becomes reality, as do the mysterious figures of the Polish grandmother and Captain Andreas.

Katerina narrates these three summers with imagination, humor, and endless tenderness, with a youthful grace that already carries a tone of nostalgia. A captivating book, full of enthusiasm, that keeps the reader pleasantly unsettled, as one is in front of the feminine mystery.

The Straw Hats were first published in 1946 and in Paris in 1950 by Gallimard under the title Trois Etes. Camus remarked at that time: “The sun has disappeared from today’s books. That is why they harm us instead of helping us. However, the secret remains in certain places, passed from one initiate to another. You are among them – like Rene Char, Jean Grenier, and five others. I feel a complicity with this book.” [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]