![]() ![]() The novel is divided into three parts serving the impartiality of an omniscient narrator that inhabits the minds of three very distinct characters. ![]() This emotional climate is essential for his stories, as his characters are deliberately unable to take solace in the typical placebos of the modern world. Van Booy seems to deliberately create a landscape of timelessness for his characters to inhabit, so that even direct references to modern technology slide by largely unnoticed. The novel begins in modern Athens, but often it’s easy to forget which decade, if not century, the characters live in. If we didn’t already know this or don’t believe it, he’ll quickly prove his point in this akimbo Odyssey filled with characters aimlessly questing for that intangible ‘thing’ called home. ![]() “Athens has long been a place where lonely people go,” claims Simon Van Booy in the opening paragraph of his novel, Everything Beautiful Began After. ![]()
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