Small Things Like These: The Irish Times readers' choice for best Irish book of the century - Softcover

Keegan, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571368700 ISBN 13: 9780571368709

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2022

Synopsis

An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571368700
• ISBN 13: 9780571368709
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128