Foster - by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These
Verlag | Faber & Faber |
Auflage | 2022 |
Seiten | 96 |
Format | 13,1 x 0,8 x 19,7 cm |
Gewicht | 124 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780571379149 |
Bestell-Nr | 57137914EA |
A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These.
§__ Adapted into the Oscar-nominated film adaptation, An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl __
From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.
'A real jewel.' Irish Independent
'A small miracle.' Sunday Times
'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian
'Thrilling.' Richard Ford
'As good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not 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. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.
Rezension:
Keegan's fiction makes most novels look too fancy; her short stories make most prose seem too plain. Her inner and outer landscapes, the palpable and the imagined, are all of a piece. You think you are just looking - it turns out you are travelling. London Review of Books