Claire Keegan
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"It 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. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
2) Foster
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"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic. Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
4) Antarctica
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This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects.
5) Antártida
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Español
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Elegido Libro del Año por Los Angeles Times, Antártida sorprendió a ambos lados del Atlántico. Sus relatos, situados en Irlanda y el sur de Estados Unidos, se sumergen en relaciones, obsesiones y traiciones. Desde una mujer que suspende su vida y se recluye durante diez años a la espera del prometido reencuentro con su amante la última noche del siglo, hasta una madre que le prepara a su esposo una sopa con fotos de su hija desaparecida para
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