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The work combines elements of drama, eroticism, and social criticism, set in a summer that the main characters will remember forever.
The novel follows five fugitives from the American Civil War - engineer Clyde Smith, journalist Gedeon Spilett, sailor Pencroft, young Herbert and black man Nabu - who escape the siege of Richmond in a balloon, but a storm takes them to an unknown Pacific
In the Shadow of Blooming Girls, the second novel of the series In Search of Lost Time, was published in 1918 and was awarded the Goncourt Prize in 1919.
The stories are often unobtrusively poetic, and reveal how ordinary moments can be carriers of great feelings.