White Nights

Author: Dostoevsky

Translated by: Sami Al-Durubi

A romantic novel that tells the story of four nights in St. Petersburg, revolving around a young dreamer who lives alone and meets a weeping girl hoping for her lover's arrival. The young man falls in love with her from the first moment, and she comforts him with the mirage of a nascent love. In just a few pages, this novel covers many things: the delirium of a dreamy young man, the hopes of a girl in love, a story of a successful meeting and a failed love, and the excuses and justifications of the lover in the moment of romantic anticipation. This is done in the brilliant and beautiful style that distinguished Dostoevsky, the great novelist who spent his life delving into the human psyche, revealing its depths and secrets. It is an easy-to-read novel and very suitable for beginners in reading Russian literature or beginners in reading in general, as the novel tells in about one hundred pages the story of a sensitive single young man whose soul yearns for the love of a girl he cannot wait to meet, during St. Petersburg's white nights.