Walk the Blue Fields: 'Pure magic.' Colm Tóibín - Couverture souple

Keegan, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571382223 ISBN 13 : 9780571382224

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2026

Synopsis

From the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These.

'Perfect short stories.' Anne Enright

'Breath-taking.' Irish Times

'Her stories are as good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell

A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor. A priest seeks solace from a romantic memory. A farmhand regrets losing the finest woman in town. In this remarkable collection of stories, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Claire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award - the world's richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the long awaited second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These. A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571382223
• ISBN 13: 9780571382224
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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