This mercifully short book consists of five short stories, each ending with a moral point so stupefying banal that I am amazed that the author had the nerve to put the collection in front of the public. I downloaded it because I was taken in by the free sample -- the first few pages of the title story.
A stranger arrives in a small Cretan town in a taxi, and lets himself into an empty house. Here the sample ends. I was interested in the setting and curious to know what happened next. Actually very little. It seems that the house belonged to the man's sister, who died two years earlier. She was ostracised because of dark rumours. Her brother tells the townspeople that before she came to the town his sister had given birth to a child out of wedlock. The townspeople did not know. They are all ashamed.
That's it.
The rest of the stories are pretty similar in structure. This is women's magazine stuff at its worst. Save your money.
