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NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
It's 1985, and we are in a town in Ireland. Christmas is approaching, a busy time for Bill Furlong, a timber and coal supplier. Early one morning, he delivers an order to the local convent – and is confronted by the darkness and the complicit silence of a town under the church's control.
In a small Irish town, Bill Furlong tries to fulfill his customers' orders as the year comes to an end. At the helm of a small company and the father of five girls, he has managed to build his life on his own. His mother, a servant, became pregnant at fifteen but, unlike what usually happened, they did not throw her out of the house with her baby. In this respect, Bill was luckier than other children.
On Christmas Eve, Bill makes his final delivery to the convent – where, under the pretext of training them, the nuns exploit girls of "loose morals" and make them work in the convent's laundry. What Bill discovers there, and the difficult decision it leads him to, is narrated by the author with such restrained grace that this beautiful text becomes both enigmatic and shocking. A masterpiece that has justly been praised by critics.
WHAT THE PRESS SAID
The carefully crafted details in the characters, the environment, memory, and dramatic moments weave a story you will want to read again and again. Its deceptively simple language is flawless. Boston Globe
This remarkable short story somehow defies the weight of the subject and hovers in the everyday, bright present. The details take on substance with a supernatural clarity. The white light of a winter afternoon, the haze over a river, a woman opening the door of a bakery, a child holding his father's hand: We see these images and feel their persistent presence as we enter the life of an ordinary man in an everyday place. Wall Street Journal
Keegan is the goddess of small things. Her ability to create entire worlds with just a few words, a whole relationship through just a few interactions, almost borders on the miraculous. Small Things Like These assures us that we are all capable of doing the right thing, and that kindness, just like misery, is contagious. It is a literary state of grace. Herald
Read an excerpt
In October, the leaves on the trees were yellow. Then the clocks turned back one hour and the strong November winds came, blowing and stripping the trees bare. In the town of New Ross, the chimneys spat out smoke, which fell low and drifted, faint, thin wisps that quickly scattered over the docks, and soon the Barrow River, dark as black beer, swelled from the rains.
Most people endured the weather with difficulty: shopkeepers and merchants, men and women at the post office and in the unemployment line, at the market, in the café and the supermarket, at the betting shop, in the pubs and eateries, everyone commented in their own way on how cold it was and how much it rained, and wondered what this rain brought—and what it could possibly bring—because, who would have thought that, once again, it was so bitterly cold?
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- Author
- Claire Keegan
- Publisher
- Metaichmio
- Type
- Social
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Release Date
- 11/2022
- Publication Date
- 2022
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180332230
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