What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, secretly wrote a novel --- a manuscript hidden long ago that might have survived? This tantalizing possibility drives THE SUMMER GUEST, a spellbinding story --- inspired by historical events --- in which a diary weaves together the lives of three women: a dying Ukranian doctor who befriends Anton Chekov in the 19th century, a modern-day London book editor, and the woman she hires to translate it into English.