Walk the Blue Fields

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Av Claire Keegan

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AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'Exquisite . so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' GUARDIAN'Pure magic.' COLM TÓIBÍN'Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYA long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2008-05-01
  • Mått126 x 198 x 11 mm
  • Vikt160 g
  • SpråkEngelska
  • Antal sidor192
  • FörlagFaber & Faber
  • EAN9780571233076
  • UtmärkelserWinner of Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2008