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Small Things Like These | Booker Prize Shortlist 2022 | Claire Keegan
Discover Small Things Like These, the multi-award-winning, bestselling novella by Claire Keegan, now available in a stunning new edition.
- Winner of The Orwell Prize & The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year
- Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2022, Rathbones Folio Prize & Dalkey Literary Awards
Set in Ireland, 1985, this critically acclaimed Irish novel follows Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, as he prepares for the busiest weeks before Christmas. But as he moves through town, he uncovers dark secrets hidden beneath the surface of a seemingly quiet community, testing his courage in the face of power.
✨ Praise for Small Things Like These
- “Exquisite.” – Damon Galgut
- “Masterly.” – The Times
- “Miraculous.” – Herald
- “Astonishing.” – Colm Tóibín
- “Absolutely beautiful.” – Douglas Stuart
A Sunday Times & Irish Times Bestseller
A deeply moving tale of compassion, resilience, and quiet resistance, Small Things Like These is a modern Irish literary classic that lingers long after the final page. - 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780571392605
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (10 October 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 232 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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