The Last Winter is an attempt to analyze the moral problems that we confront in this century. In the first book Benjamin, after the death of his wife, falls in love with a pleasure-seeking woman. He loves her desperately and believes he is the only man in her life. As he comes to realize that he has no claim over the woman who is at the same time his lover, colleague and the wife of one of his friends the psychological tension becomes tremendous. The novel recounts his trials and tribulations as well as the protagonists suffering as he discovers he has been betrayed. It examines the vicissitudes of a doctor in the last winter of his life and has as a setting a world riddled with adultery, drug abuse, and crime. It also relates the adventures of a psychiatrist who is continually seeking to help his patients and suffers together with them. The Last Winter dissects the intricate thoughts of the sane and the criminal, discusses love, abandonment, the joy of life, the beauty of nature and the reason of living; in short investigates all the feelings that fill our life with passion.
