Small Things Like These 克莱尔·吉根：像这样的小事 （2022布克奖短名单）（爱尔兰短篇小说女王）（英国边山短篇小说奖得主新作）

基本信息

Format Paperback | 128 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 9mm | 149g

Publication date 03 Nov 2022

Publisher Faber & Faber

Language English

ISBN10 0571368700

ISBN13 9780571368709

Bestsellers rank 290

书籍简介

** 《泰晤士报》-《新政治家》-《观察家》-《金融时报》-《爱尔兰时报》-《爱尔兰独立报》-《泰晤士报文学副刊》中的年度图书 **

奥威尔奖和凯里集团爱尔兰年度小说奖得主

入围Rathbones folio奖和Dalkey文学奖的爱尔兰年度小说。

”精致的。“达蒙·加尔古特

”大师级的。“《泰晤士报》

“神奇的。”《先驱报》

”令人惊讶。“科尔姆·托宾

”令人震惊。“《星期日独立报》

”美丽。“道格拉斯·斯图尔特

这是1985年，在一个爱尔兰小镇。在圣诞节前的几个星期里，煤炭和木材商人比尔-弗朗（Bill Furlong）面临着他繁忙的季节。当他巡视时，他感觉到过去的一切都在向他涌来--并遇到了被教会控制的人们的共谋的沉默。

** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement **

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS

'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut

'Masterly.' The Times

'Miraculous.' Herald

'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin

'Stunning.' Sunday Independent

'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart

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.

作者简介

克莱尔·吉根的故事被翻译成三十种语言。《南极洲》赢得了爱尔兰文学的鲁尼奖。《走在蓝色的田野上》赢得了埃奇希尔奖，该奖授予在不列颠群岛出版的故事集。福斯特赢得了学奖之一的戴维·伯恩斯奖，并在去年被《泰晤士报》选为二十一世纪出版的五十部小说作品之一。《像这样的小事》入围了2022年布克奖和雷斯本斯对开奖，该奖授予以英语出版的文学作品，无论其形式如何，它赢得了凯里集团爱尔兰年度小说奖和奥威尔政治小说奖。

Claire Keegan's stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.