內容簡介
那是個燥熱的愛爾蘭盛夏，一個小女孩被送往鄉間的寄養家庭。在那個對她而言全然陌生的農場裡，她不知道自己何時才能回家。然而，在這個陌生人的屋簷下，她卻體會到前所未有的溫暖與愛護。作者以極其克制且溫柔的筆觸，勾勒出童年純真與現實殘酷交織的靜謐時光。
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.
作者介紹
克萊兒．吉根的小說作品享譽國際，已被翻譯成三十種語言。其處女作《南極》（暫譯，Antarctica）榮獲魯尼愛爾蘭文學獎（Rooney Prize for Irish Literature）；《走在藍色田野上》（暫譯，Walk the Blue Fields）榮獲愛吉希爾獎（Edge Hill Prize），被評為不列顛群島出版的最佳短篇小說集；《寄養》則摘下戴維．拜恩斯獎（Davy Byrnes Award）——這是全球獎金最高的短篇小說獎。她的長篇小說《像這樣的小事》不僅入圍布克獎與雷斯朋（Rathbones）奧利奧書獎決選，更榮獲歐威爾政治小說獎（Orwell Prize for Political Fiction）與凱里愛爾蘭年度小說獎（The Kerry Prize）。此外，她還分別於 2022 年榮獲愛爾蘭年度女性文學獎，以及在 2023 年榮獲年度作家殊榮。
Claire Keegan's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into 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 — the world’s richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.
