Claire Keegan
1) Foster
Author
Language
English
Description
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Claire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story "The Long and Painful Death," a writer awarded a stay...
5) Antártida
Author
Publisher
Eterna Cadencia
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Elegido Libro del Año por Los Angeles Times, Antártida sorprendió a ambos lados del Atlántico. Sus relatos, situados en Irlanda y el sur de Estados Unidos, se sumergen en relaciones, obsesiones y traiciones. Desde una mujer que suspende su vida y se recluye durante diez años a la espera del prometido reencuentro con su amante la última noche del siglo, hasta una madre que le prepara a su esposo una sopa con fotos de su hija desaparecida para
...6) Antarctica
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of stories set in different places all over the world describes situations that illuminate uncomfortable relationships.
