{"product_id":"small-things-like-these-oprahs-book-club","title":"Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time.\" --Lily King, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmall Things Like These \u003c\/em\u003eis award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn international bestseller, \u003cem\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A mighty story that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.\" --\u003cb\u003eOprah Winfrey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"At the opening of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e, one immediately senses that Keegan is breathing something vital into the season's most cherished tales, until, as gently as snow falling, her little book accrues the unmistakable aura of a classic... From the elements of this simple existence in an inconsequential town, Keegan has carved out a profoundly moving and universal story...\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereminds us that the real miracle in any season is courage. Get two copies: one to keep, one to give.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I haven't stopped thinking about [this] book, both because of Keegan's luminous prose and because of the crisis of conscience that unspools within its pages.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Year in Reading\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For all her earlier accolades,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e, Keegan's first novel, enters the world this month with the shocking force of a debut...Over what would amount to a couple of chapters in another novel, Keegan manages to place her characters and her readers at the center of an essential human dilemma: Will we turn a blind eye to evil in our midst, or will we take some action against it, even if it consists of just one small thing? As Keegan's concise, capacious new book demonstrates, little acts can lead to real change.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's precisely considered details about character, setting, memory, and dramatic moment create a story you will want to read again and again. Her deceptively simple language is pitch-perfect.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This exquisite miniature of a novel somehow defies the gravitational pull of its grim subject to hover in a quotidian, luminous present. Details materialize with preternatural clarity. The milky light of a winter afternoon, mist on a river, a woman opening an oven door, a child taking her father's hand: We see these things and feel their lingering presence as we are drawn into the life of an unassuming man in an unremarkable place.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan...now gives us her best work yet.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. Either one bears a price...Spare and potent, this is a remarkable story.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The way a Keegan story unfolds is like it's happening to you, with a sense of tension and the suspicion of high stakes. Her prose is crisp and transportive, and full of a mastery of her homeland's language and context,\"--\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As in Vermeer's canvases, there's genius in the clarity of finely observed details. An open window, a slant of light, the gesture of a hand: These are the tools that Irish virtuoso Claire Keegan brings to her exquisite short novel...Keegan goes small to go big.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a gem of a slim novel about a family man faced with a moral decision...a deeply moving tale.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan captured and affected my whole attention. She draws a web of complicity around the convent's activities that is chillingly mundane and brutally true. These kinds of places existed not just because of the cruelty of the people who ran them, but also because of the fear and selfishness of those who were willing to ignore them. Stunning. Just stunning.\"--\u003cb\u003eCatherine Whelan, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Keegan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty languages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalk the Blue Fields\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the Davy Byrnes Award -- the world's richest prize for a short story. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45760618725562,"sku":"9780802158741","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_8f3baf79-a5a3-4ddd-98a8-df15fbf7032e.jpg?v=1775610391","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/small-things-like-these-oprahs-book-club","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}