A Quiet Irish Classic Of Conscience And Courage
Claire Keegan builds immense emotional and moral weight from apparently ordinary circumstances. Bill Furlong's Christmas deliveries and the plea he cannot ignore turn this short novel into something powerful, making it ideal for readers who value clarity, restraint and lasting impact.
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A Quiet Irish Classic Of Conscience And Courage
Claire Keegan builds immense emotional and moral weight from apparently ordinary circumstances. Bill Furlong's Christmas deliveries and the plea he cannot ignore turn this short novel into something powerful, making it ideal for readers who value clarity, restraint and lasting impact.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Read Irish literary fiction that says a great deal in a small space.
- Are moved by stories in which one quiet act of witness changes everything.
- Would be drawn to a small town, a convent and Christmas 1985 in Ireland.
- Prefer spare, exacting novels that linger long after the last page.
In a small Irish town, just before Christmas 1985, Bill Furlong is a hardworking coal-merchant with a good reputation and a devoted family.
He is also the son of a teenage mother who never married.
When a young woman in the convent where Bill delivers coal confronts him with a quiet plea for help, he finds himself unable to ignore the truth he sees unfolding.
Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism and empathy from one of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers.
Short-listed for the Booker Prize and winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
- About The Author
- Claire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been 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 - the world's richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571368709
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (03 November 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 116
- Weight
- 149 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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