Small Things like These
#338 of 8,085 books · #177 in Fiction
Won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2022). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.
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.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN-13
- 9780571368716
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- The Orwell Prize for Political FictionWon(2022)
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(2022)
- The Writers' PrizeShortlisted(2022)
Other awarded books from Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
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