{"product_id":"small-things-like-these-claire-keegan","title":"Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** A \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Chosen as a \u003ci\u003eSpectator, Irish Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eFOSTER\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSMALL THINGS LIKE THESE \u003c\/i\u003eIS AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF HOPE, QUIET HEROISM, AND TENDERNESS. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' \u003c\/b\u003eHilary Mantel (Winner of the Booker Prize 2009 and 2012)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' \u003c\/b\u003eDouglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Moss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.'\u003c\/b\u003e Sinéad Gleeson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**CHOSEN AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' \u003c\/b\u003eColm Tóibín\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.' \u003c\/b\u003eAndrew O'Hagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.' \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Hayden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaire Keegan's book \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e was a Sunday Times Bestseller w\/c 05-11-2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eClaire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. \u003ci\u003eAntarctica \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. \u003ci\u003eWalk the Blue Fields\u003c\/i\u003e won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. \u003ci\u003eFoster \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Davy Byrnes Award - the world's richest prize for a short story. \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 128 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65886402216285,"sku":"K081603165","price":14.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8160316500001A.jpg?v=1789063866","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/small-things-like-these-claire-keegan","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}