A summer weekend, in a country house, three friends gather on the first anniversary of Tony's death. They are his brother, John, his sister-in-law, Marian, and his former partner, Lyle.

The peaceful reunion is disturbed by the presence of a stranger, the young painter who is now dating Lyle. Whether they like it or not, the summer rituals ―a swim in the river, an outdoor dinner with guests, or a nighttime walk― will be marked by the figure of the absent friend, and each of the three must find their own way to cope with the loss.

Peter Cameron combines social satire with intimacy and tenderness like few authors, leading the reader to reflect on personal experience, the difficulty of truly knowing someone, and the ambiguity of social relationships. Originally published in 1994, Un fin de semana remains, without a doubt, one of the author’s best novels.

“Un fin de semana explores how difficult it is to accept that the spouse of a deceased friend moves on with another partner. (…) And certainly Cameron studies this with detail and accuracy.” Núria Escur (La Vanguardia)

“Peter Cameron is an excellent storyteller. Not only do his stories flow smoothly, but they leave traces of melancholy and a symbolic world built from normality rather than rhetoric.” César Prieto (Efe Eme)

“Peter Cameron is many writers in one, because he distills the best of the great masters and transforms it, with elegance, into something his own.” Rodrigo Fresán (ABC Cultural)

“Cameron demonstrates in Un fin de semana his skill in unfolding, from more or less minimal stories, the conflicts that arise from unresolved misunderstandings and ambiguities. In the end, as in his previous works, Un fin de semana is a kind of exploration of the difficulties of loving expression, the burdens of miscommunication, and the confusions that fuel social relationships.” Iñigo Urrutia (El Diario Vasco)

“Peter Cameron returns in this book to speak about those cracks that open in everyday life. Cracks through which pain seeps subtly yet insistently. And he does so, as on other occasions, in a masterful way.” Sagrario Fdez.-Prieto (La Razón)

“The setting gives rise to brilliant dialogues and an atmosphere of tension felt on every page. The small frictions are the scalpel that opens old wounds and fears, leaving expectations face to face with reality.” Leire Escalada (Navarra.com)

“Peter Cameron weaves a perfect web that naturally traps the reader from the first pages. Un fin de semana is read quickly and enthusiastically, revealing much more than it seems.” Victoriano S. Álamo (Canarias 7)

“Who hasn’t gone through these adjustments that death forces upon us? And therefore, who will come out unscathed from reading Un fin de semana by Peter Cameron? No one. Absolutely no one.” Fantastic Plastic Mag

“Peter Cameron offers us in Un fin de semana one of those everyday stories, seemingly simple but with great emotional weight (…) The American writer also addresses social conventions, such as how long one should mourn a loved one who is no longer here. When is the ideal time to recover? Does recovering mean a betrayal to the one who is gone or to their family? What right does the world have to judge us in this regard?” Eric Gras (Mediterrani)

“A novel so moving that, upon finishing it, we are convinced that something important has just happened; it leaves us moved and stripped bare.” Francine Prose (The Yale Review)

“Full of observations that ring like bells and flicker like fireflies, evanescent yet indelible.” The New Yorker

“Fascinating and addictive (…). We close the novel knowing better the complexity of each character, but also more aware of the intricate web underlying all social conventions.” Michael Dorris (Los Angeles Times)

“Echoes of Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose brilliant critiques of materialistic culture repeatedly open to the metaphysical. Cameron’s tender elegy is as much a love song as a lament, as much a prayer as a requiem.” Joyce Reiser Kornblatt (The New York Times Book Review)