Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9780571392605
• ISBN-10: 0571392601
• Artikelnr.: 70901054

Autorenporträt

Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Rezensionen

A story of quiet bravery, set in an Irish community in denial of its central secret. Beautiful, clear, economic writing and an elegant structure dense with moral themes. Booker Judges, 2022