西蒙·范·布伊，1975年生于伦敦，在威尔士乡村和牛津长大，大学时迷上橄榄球，成为美国肯塔基州一所大学的橄榄球队员。在那儿，经由一位英语教授介绍，爱上了惠特曼、爱默生美国诗人的作品，而另一个英语教授则鼓励他写诗和创作短篇小说。之后，他回到英国，辗转几所大学，获得MFA学位。曾旅居巴黎和雅典。 西蒙·范·布伊已出版两部短篇小说集《因为。爱》和《爱，始于冬季》，《爱，始于冬季》荣获2009年弗兰纳•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖。2012年，西蒙•范•布伊出版第一部长篇小说《美，始于怀念》。他的第二部长篇小说《分离的幻觉》于2013年6月出版。西蒙•范•布伊目前住在纽约。他也是《纽约时报》、《纽约邮报》、英国《每日电讯报》、《泰晤士报》的撰稿人。 除了文学创作，他还在纽约艺术学校和长岛大学兼职任教，并参与了一个关怀青少年的人道主义项目。

Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens—trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy League colleges. He has no close relationships with anyone and spends his days...(展开全部)

妮古拉·尹，出生于牙买加，在纽约布鲁克林长大。 《你是我一切的一切》是她的第一部小说，出版后获得了巨大成功，在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上停留了一年的时间，并被米高梅和华纳兄弟合作改编成同名电影。 她的丈夫是一位设计师，他为这本书绘制了插图。如今她和丈夫、女儿生活在洛杉矶，她对他们的爱超越了一切。

这是一个关于不能出门的女孩的故事。 Maddie患有SCID（严重复合型免疫不全症），无法离开有滤水器与空气滤净器的家。 她的母亲与照顾她的护士就是全世界…… 直到隔壁住进了一个男孩。 Olly和Maddie开始传简讯息与e-mail， 而Maddie发现 自己渐渐的爱上一个她永远也无法见到的男孩。

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a ...(展开全部)

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship – too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness. But the mission of this book is distinctly and determinedly different – it is not to rework these already-rehashed ideas, but to rej...(展开全部)

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship – too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness. But the mission of this book is distinctly and determinedly different – it is not to rework these already-rehashed ideas, but to rej...(展开全部)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)