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)

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。

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? “Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life’s highs and lows with aching precision.”—The Washington Post William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents co...(展开全部)

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? “Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life’s highs and lows with aching precision.”—The Washington Post William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents co...(展开全部)

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she ...(展开全部)

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she ...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Ma...(展开全部)

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butche...(展开全部)

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butche...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Ma...(展开全部)