Small Things like These
Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These won the Orwell Prize and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and was a Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller and named to the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century.' 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN-13
- 9780571368716
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Institutional abuse and complicityMoral courageIrish society and the Catholic Church
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(2022)
- The Writers' PrizeShortlistedMajor(2022)
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