Tales of Accidental Genius (eBook)

Simon Van Booy (Autor)

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2016
272 Seiten
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78074-972-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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. In his first book of short stories since Love Begins in Winter, bestselling author Simon Van Booy offers a collection of stories highlighting how human genius can emerge through acts of compassion. Through characters including an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney bodyguard, the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a divorced amateur magician from New Jersey, and a Beijing street vendor who becomes an overnight billionaire, Tales of Accidental Genius contemplates individuals from different cultures and racesrich and poor, young and oldand reveals how faith and yearning for connection help us transcend loneliness, fear, and misfortune.

Autor

Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories all published by Oneworld including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for the New York Times, Guardian, NPR and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-78074-972-4 / 1780749724
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-972-3 / 9781780749723