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Small Things like These

Claire Keegan

#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.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571368716
Genre
Topics
Institutional abuse and complicityMoral courageIrish society and the Catholic Church

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