西蒙·范·布伊（Simon Van Booy）1975年出生於倫敦，在威爾斯鄉村和牛津長大，大學時迷上橄欖球，成為美國肯塔基州一所大學的橄欖球隊員。在那兒，經由一位英語教授介紹，愛上了惠特曼、愛默生等美國詩人的作品，而另一個英語教授則鼓勵他寫詩和創作短篇小說。之後，他回到英國，輾轉幾所大學，獲得藝術碩士學位。他曾旅居巴黎和雅典。
西蒙·范·布伊已出版兩部短篇小說集《因為。愛》（The Secret Lives of People in Love）和《愛，始於冬季》，並主編一套哲學讀物，包括《為什麼我們戰鬥》（Why We Fight）、《為什麼我們需要愛》（Why We Need Love）、《為什麼我們的決定不重要》（Why Our Decisions Don't Matter）。他的首部長篇小說將於2011年出版。
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 hunched over books or wandering the city in a drunken stupor.
Henry is in Athens to dig. An accomplished young archaeologist, he devotedly uncovers the city’s past as a way to escape his own, which holds a secret that not even his doting parents can talk about.
...And then, with a series of chance meetings, Rebecca, George, and Henry are suddenly in flight, their lives brighter and clearer than ever, as they fall headlong into a summer that will forever define them in the decades to come.
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