Simon Van Booy brings to the page his unique talent for poeticdialogue and sumptuous imagery in this his remarkable debutnovel of love and loss, dependence and independence.Rebecca has come to Athens to paint. Born and raised in the south ofFrance, Rebecca's mother abandoned her and her sister when they werevery young, left to be raised by her loving yet distant grandfather. Youngand lost, she seeks solace in the heat of Athens. George has come toAthens to translate language. Dropped off at a New England boardingschool when he was a child, he has close to no relationships with anyone, except...
Simon Van Booy brings to the page his unique talent for poeticdialogue and sumptuous imagery in this his remarkable debutnovel of love and loss, depen...
In The Illusion of Separateness, award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells the haunting and luminous story of how one man's act of mercy on a World War II battlefield changes the lives of six strangers across time and place. From wartime Britain and Nazi-occupied France, to modern-day Los Angeles, the characters of this gripping novel - inspired by true events - include a child on the brink of starvation, a blind museum curator looking for love, a German infantryman, and a humble caretaker at a retirement home in Santa Monica. Whether they are pursued by old age, shame, disease, or regret,...
In The Illusion of Separateness, award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells the haunting and luminous story of how one man's act of mercy on a World Wa...
A master storyteller's vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van Booy--his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
"She believed it was a gift to never truly know the self. We are not who we think we are, nor how others see us. Long before death, we die a thousand times at the hands of a definition."
In his first book of short stories since Love Begins in Winter, for which he won the Frank...
A master storyteller's vision reawakens us to the human experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly humorous new collection of short fic...
