I recommend this book for the summer. Specially if you're not going anywhere but would love to. Outstanding writing. Very interesting fiction about traveling threw Crete, Greece, Spain, England, Japan and the US. It comes in 2 volumns and at first glance you would think it is 3000 pages long. There is 500 pages in volumn one and 400 in two. Outstand, light hearted, makes you feel good book. The only book I've read in years that left me with a loss for nothing to read afterwards. Now I crave something as good to read.