Simon van Booy - The Sadness of Beautiful Things

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Today we  present novelist and short story writer Simon van Booy reading A Sacrifice from his short story collection The Sadness of Beautiful Things.
 
Simon van Booy was recorded at Canios Books, Sag Harbor in December 2018. 

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Simon van Booy's short story collection The Sadness of Beautiful Things
was published in 2018 by Penguin Random House.

Simon Van Booy who grew up in rural Wales, is also the author of, among others:
The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

His novels include The Illusion of Separateness, published in 2014
And Everything Beautiful Began After published in 2011, both by Harper Perennial.

His work has been translated into thirteen different languages.

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