Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club) - Hardcover

Keegan, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802158749 ISBN 13: 9780802158741

Verlag: Grove Press, 2021

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**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**

**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY

A New York Times Bestseller • Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize • Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

The Irish Times Best Book of the 21st Century

"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers

Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

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Claire Keegan's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty 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 was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802158749
• ISBN 13: 9780802158741
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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