Foster (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
96
Utgivningsdatum
2022-08-18
Upplaga
Main
Förlag
Faber & Faber
ISBN
9780571379149

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Foster (häftad)

Foster

by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These

av Claire Keegan
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Häftad Engelska, 2022-08-18
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** Adapted into the Oscar-nominated film adaptation, An Cailin Ciuin / 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.
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Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty 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 byThe 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, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and is nominated for the Dublin Literary Award.