Simon van Booy, geboren und aufgewachsen in Wales, lebt mit seiner Frau und Tochter in Brooklyn. Er ist der Autor von zwei Erzählungsbänden und zwei Romanen sowie drei Philosophiebüchern und schreibt u. a. für die New York Times, den Guardian und die BBC. Sein Werk wurde in vierzehn Sprachen übersetzt.
19 Ebooks von Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy: The Illusion of Separateness
A harrowing story of how one man’s act of mercy during WW2 changes the lives of a group of strangers, and how they each eventually discover the astonishing truth of their connection In The Illusion o …
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Simon Van Booy: Everything Beautiful Began After
Simon Van Booy, winner of the prestigious Frank O“Connor International Short Story Award, brings his gift for poetic dialogue and sumptuous imagery to thisdebut novel of longing and discovery …
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€9.38
Simon Van Booy: Father’s Day
When devastating news shatters the life of six-year-old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met – a disab …
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Simon Van Booy: Tales of Accidental Genius
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 Begi …
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Simon Van Booy: Die Illusion des Getrenntseins
Eine kleine Bäckerei in Paris, mitten in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Ein unbekannter Soldat übergibt einer jungen Frau ein Neugeborenes ohne Namen und verschwindet. Mit sieben Jahren erfährt M …
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€8.99
Simon Van Booy: Mit jedem Jahr
Ein berührender Roman darüber, wie man den einen Menschen findet, für den man bereit ist, sich einer der größten Herausforderungen zu stellen: sich selbst zu ändern. Ein kleines Mädchen, das seine El …
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Deutsch
€18.99
Simon Van Booy: Why We Need Love
Provocative and eye-opening, Why We Need Love is one of three slim selections of philosophical texts and excerptsalong with Why We Fight and Why Our Decisions Dont Matterintroduced and contextualized …
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€7.39
Simon Van Booy: Illusion of Separateness
The uncanny beauty of Van Booys prose, and his ability to knife straight to the depths of a characters heart, fill a reader with wonder.There are so many wonderful sentences in this book, a reviewer …
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€5.82
Simon Van Booy: Father’s Day
Van Booys great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here, someone who has …
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€8.99
Simon Van Booy: Tales of Accidental Genius
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.A master storyt …
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€7.80
Simon Van Booy: Night Came with Many Stars
“It is a heartbreaking book, a gorgeous book…In Night Came with Many Stars, Van Booy finds the weakness, grace and beauty of common lives fully lived.” — NPR, “Books We Love” “Not to miss!” — USA T …
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€12.99
Brian Aldiss & Stephen Baxter: Morphologies
Being short, you might think the story’s structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged a …
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€6.40
Simon Van Booy: The Presence of Absence
“Flows with depth and power….wide-open wonder.”—Washington Post “Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable….wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful.”— San Francisco Chroni …
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€9.99
Simon Van Booy: Sipsworth
“Beautiful and enchanting”—Washington Post Sometimes a second chance comes in the most unexpected way…. Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her chi …
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€12.99
Simon Van Booy: Sipsworth
'A gorgeously odd tale about finding yourself again, unexpectedly. If you want a little piece of joy in your reading life, buy it' Jojo Moyes 'Loaded with charm, resilience, and the de …
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Englisch
€8.49
