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Nov 5, 2021 · “Small Things Like These” is a novella mascaraing as a novel. Set in the mid 1980’s in a small Irish village, author Claire Keegan writes an almost passive novel highlighting Ireland’s ugly relationship with the Magdalene laundries.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These. Hardcover – November 30, 2021. by Claire Keegan (Author) 4.4 10,862 ratings. See all formats and editions. Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time."
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Small Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [1] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [2] and the Booker Prize. [3]
Jun 28, 2022 · At just over one hundred pages, Irish writer Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is a deceptively slim volume. On the one hand, it has the scathing social and religious indictment of a longer novel; on the other, it is a quiet and morose character study, a novella that delves into one man’s psychology and moral fiber.
Explore Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel Small Things Like These with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it ‘explores the silent, self-interested complicity of a whole community’.
Jan 1, 2022 · Small Things Like These Paperback – January 1, 2022. by Claire Keegan (Author) 4.4 16,867 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These. Claire Keegan. Grove Press, Nov 30, 2021 - Fiction - 118 pages. Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. One of the New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st...
