Destined to be a modern classic from “an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction” (Colm Tóibín), Small Things Like These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the tale of one man’s courage — and a remarkable portrait of love and family.
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is fa...
Destined to be a modern classic from “an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction” (Colm Tóibín), Small Things Like These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the tale of one man’s courage — and a remarkable portrait of love and family.
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is father to five girls, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting and inspiring story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically celebrated and iconic writers.
CLAIRE KEEGAN was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning...
CLAIRE KEEGAN was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award—then the world’s richest prize for a story—was recently selected by The Times UK as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might there lives be different or much the s...
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IM SURE I AM GOING TO READ IT AGAIN (AND AGAIN). it’s a very touching and beautifully written. some sentences are pure poetry. It’s very Irish, with the classical literary beauty in depiction and also observe the characters deeply. An example, the author ...
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It’s a book that I wanted to read again the first time I finished it. And so I did. On the Christmas Eve of 1985, in the small Irish town, Sarah walked alongside Bill Furlong, through what feels like the longest way home. She vomited. She was out of breath...
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克莱尔·吉根 作者
Irene
盔酱兮
Faber & Faber2021版
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人民文学出版社2023版
大河狸
Faber & Faber2021版
1 有用 苏木 2023-01-26 11:15:43 北京
为何Furlong有勇气触碰魔盒？他对成长经历的回溯中，显现Mrs.Wilson和母亲Sarah的身影，两位阶级不同，却都给他同样爱与教养的女性。Mrs.Wilson在母亲困苦无路可退时施以援手，又悉心抚育教育Furlong，无分别心。言行间细小之处的德行教化Furlong，这些小累计为大，便是她的一生。与之对应的则是修道院对女性的压迫。以善之名和无名善举在男性视角下勾勒出彼时坚固的宗教氛围。善与... 为何Furlong有勇气触碰魔盒？他对成长经历的回溯中，显现Mrs.Wilson和母亲Sarah的身影，两位阶级不同，却都给他同样爱与教养的女性。Mrs.Wilson在母亲困苦无路可退时施以援手，又悉心抚育教育Furlong，无分别心。言行间细小之处的德行教化Furlong，这些小累计为大，便是她的一生。与之对应的则是修道院对女性的压迫。以善之名和无名善举在男性视角下勾勒出彼时坚固的宗教氛围。善与恶，诚与伪对应下，小人物的英雄主义愈加显现光亮。 (展开)
4 有用 威叔在香港 2022-08-21 00:20:48 中国香港
2022.08.20. 破纪录的布克奖长名单“最短小说”入围者（仅110页），只有读过才能感其价值、知其力量。“Small things”是生活中不起眼的微小善意，作者用男主的一个圣诞节前后几日的经历+男主成长经历双线叙事、通过男主和抚养他长大（亦拯救了他未婚先孕的母亲）的威尔森太太两个角色，想说的是：微小的善意和善行背后，或是一个个对抗主流权势/价值观/眼光的艰难决定，而这些小小善意善行汇总一起... 2022.08.20. 破纪录的布克奖长名单“最短小说”入围者（仅110页），只有读过才能感其价值、知其力量。“Small things”是生活中不起眼的微小善意，作者用男主的一个圣诞节前后几日的经历+男主成长经历双线叙事、通过男主和抚养他长大（亦拯救了他未婚先孕的母亲）的威尔森太太两个角色，想说的是：微小的善意和善行背后，或是一个个对抗主流权势/价值观/眼光的艰难决定，而这些小小善意善行汇总一起，或足以拯救、改变人的一生。男主作为微小善行的受益者亦是践行者，在一个风雪交加的圣诞夜、在80-90年代的爱尔兰偏远小镇，如孤勇者般凭着一颗良心对抗强大的教权。故事结束后，作者介绍了爱尔兰抹大拉修道院曾囚禁1-3万女性、致使数千名婴儿丧生或流离失所的残酷历史背景，更升华了故事的意义和力量。年度好书。 (展开)
9 有用 😪😪😪 2021-12-11 18:48:31
emo了。非常sentimental现在。圣诞节并不总是many many happies return，了解过历史背景之后再读真的很隽永。非常适合十二月的一本书，总是忍不住想到安徒生童话里的卖火柴的小女孩。ps：以前就觉得吉根厌男，看完这本更觉得了。啊，真的好喜欢她。
0 有用 王安安 2023-08-09 04:19:43 美国
欧洲文学再一上来就用一大堆植物名字把我劝退，我就真被彻底劝退了。
1 有用 Rug 2021-12-31 13:22:49
古典隽永的道德故事，跟多年前看《南极》很不一样