by Claire Keegan · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253934776
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«Ce genre de petites choses» is the novel by Claire Keegan, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, discovers a young woman locked up in the local convent and must decide between staying silent or acting. Set in Ireland in 1985, the story addresses the complicity of a silent community, individual conscience, and compassion as a form of everyday heroism.
It is the French translation of the English original Small Things Like These. The work was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Orwell Prize in the political fiction category.
Aimed at fans of Irish literary fiction and reading clubs looking for short novels with social depth.
Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review. She is also known for her novellas, two of which have been adapted as films.
