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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club) - PGW
Contributor(s): Keegan, Claire (Author)
Publisher: Grove Press     (View Publisher's Titles)
ISBN: 0802158749
Physical Info: 0.8" H x 7.4" L x 5.1" W (0.5 lbs) 128 pages


Praise for Small Things Like These:

*OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024*

*NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024*

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
#41 on the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century List
An NPR "Books We Love" selection
A Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" selection
People Magazine's "Book of the Week"
A Publishers Weekly "Holiday Gift Guide" selection
A Vanity Fair Best Short Books selection

"A mighty story that will stay with you long after you turn the last page." --Oprah Winfrey

"At the opening of Small Things Like These, 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...Small Things Like These reminds us that the real miracle in any season is courage. Get two copies: one to keep, one to give."--Washington Post

"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." -- The New Yorker, "The Year in Reading" Selection

"For all her earlier accolades, Small Things Like These, 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."--Los Angeles Times

"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."--Boston Globe

"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."--The Wall Street Journal

"Claire Keegan...now gives us her best work yet. Small Things Like These is 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." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"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,"-- Vanity Fair

"A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel."--People

"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." -- Oprah Daily

"Small Things Like These is a gem of a slim novel about a family man faced with a moral decision...a deeply moving tale."--Associated Press

"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."--Catherine Whelan, NPR
 

Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club) - PGW

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