Bøker av Claire Keegan

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel 'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart 'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss 'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinead Gleeson 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. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. 'Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Toibin 'A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.' Andrew O'Hagan 'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.' David Hayden

From the opening story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind - to sleep with another man - Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal and fragile relationships. In 'House Calls', Cordelia wakes on the last day ofthe twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting. In 'The Singing Cashier', a local postman visits two sisters bearingfishy gifts in the hope that his favour will be returned in kind. One of the most moving and disturbing stories in the collection, 'Passport Soup', features Frank Corso, who sits alone eating green tomatoes and bacon, mourning the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter: 'At one point in that late evening, she was there, and then she wasn't.' Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. Compassionate, witty and unsettling, Antarctica is a collection to be savoured.

Claire Keegans to korte romaner regnes allerede som moderne klassikere i Irland og har vunnet en rekke priser nasjonalt og internasjonalt.]]>

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan's great accomplishment and talent.

En mann tenker på kvinnen han kunne tilbrakt livet med, hadde ting bare gått litt annerledes. En forfatter drar til sjøen for å jobbe uforstyrret, men distraherers av en eldre, mannlig akademikers nærvær og påtrengende meninger. En gift kvinne drar til storbyen like før jul, fordi hun vil finne ut hvordan det føles å ligge med en annen mann.Claire Keegan, omtalt av New York Times som en mester i novellesjangeren, undersøker alt som står i veien for det som kunne vært mellom kvinner og menn, som smålighet, vekten av forventninger og en konstant, ulmende trussel om vold. Potente, ladede og rystende presise, vil disse mesterlige fortellingene klinge videre i leseren lenge etter at boken er lukket.

So Late in the Day, eng, Claire Keegan, 2023-08-31, Faber & Faber

En liten jente blir sendt til et barnløst par på den irske landsbygda, uten å vite når hun skal hjem igjen til sin egen familie. Hos de fremmede møter jenta denne sommeren en varme og en omsorg hun aldri har opplevd før, og begynner forsiktig å blomstre. Så avsløres en hemmelighet som viser henne hvor skjør idyllen er.

Det er jul i den lille irske byen New Ross, og kullhandleren Bill Furlong har det travelt med årets siste leveranser. Hjemme forbereder han høytiden med kona og de fem døtrene. Aller siste tur, på selve julaften, går til byens nonnekloster. Her møter Bill et menneske som virvler opp hans egen fortid, og som stiller ham overfor et moralsk dilemma. Skal han sikre seg og familien, eller lytte til sin egen samvittighet?Småting som dette er en tidløs julefortelling om menneskelighet og mot.«Bejublet julefortelling om skrekkelige hendelser. «Småting som dette» er en fortelling som fortsetter å virke i leseren etter at boka er lukket.» Maya Troberg Djuve, Dagbladet (Terningkast 5)«Fin førjulsmelankoli. ... Litt mørkt, litt melankolsk, men fint på den klassiske dickensianske måten. ... Claire Keegan er en av irsk litteraturs mest feirede nålevende novelleforfattere. Setningene hennes er enkle, men presise. Mye dirrer utenom. I stemningen, som sitter i. Det betyr ikke at noe er uklart. Alt leseren trenger å forstå, blir vist fram.» Gerd Elin Stava Sandve, Dagsavisen

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

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 bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.