Antarctica

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These ''A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.'' Sebastian Barry ''Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.'' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister''s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica , an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.

Autorentext
Claire Keegan's stories are 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 and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These **was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Zusammenfassung
The debut collection of stories from the author of Foster and Small Things Like These.