Everything Beautiful Began After - A Novel

"Apowerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty ofone''s own fate. This is a novel you simply must read!" --Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of Townie From Simon Van Booy, the award-winning author of Love Begins in Winter and The Secret Lives of People in Love , comes a debut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Athens. With echoes of Nicole Krauss''s The History of Love and Charles Baxter''s The Feast of Love , Van Booy''s resonant tale of three isolated, disaffected adults discovering one another in Greece is the compelling product of an inquisitive, visionary talent. In the words of Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , "Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart."

About the author

Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children. He is the editor of three volumes of philosophy and has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, and the BBC.
His books have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Raised in rural North Wales, he currently lives in New York where he is also a book editor and a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Van Booy, Simon Van Booy, Van Booy Simon
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2011
• EAN: 9780061661488
• ISBN: 978-0-06-166148-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Asian / Japanese, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century