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Small Things Like These

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內容簡介 直面社會角落的殘酷，你是否有勇氣做對的事？✰ 2022布克獎決選入圍！✰ 2022年歐威爾獎最佳政治類小說面對傳統守舊思想與基督宗教掌控一切的年代，你能否作出正確的選擇？年近1985年的聖誕節，在愛爾蘭的新羅斯小鎮，交易黑碳與木柴經商的比爾開始忙碌起來，已屆中年的他有著心愛的妻子和五個女兒，比爾熱愛他的生活，即便不幸的童年記憶，時常仍浮現在心中的黑暗深處。一次意外中，他赫然發現在一個少女衣衫襤褸、眼神渙散且全身發抖，被關在當地修道院的棚屋內，不僅讓他身陷危機，而關於他童年─母親的不堪回憶也即將被揭露。比爾目睹到的，即是20世紀末才被揭發，震驚愛爾蘭社會的「抹大拉洗衣房」事件，其時間跨越18-20世紀，由政府和天主教會合辦的機構，聲稱是收容並協助弱勢女性，收容妓女、孤兒或身心障礙的女性，實是將這些女人關在一起當免費勞工，環境惡劣且缺乏妥善照顧，修女甚至不將這些「墮落女性」當作人對待，不幸去世的人實際數量難以估算。2000年後，洗衣房的倖存者們組成聯盟，持續向愛爾蘭政府聲討國賠，讓這段黑暗的歷史終於公諸世人眼前。啟發自真實事件，作者Claire Keegan以優美的文筆，寫下人性面對既定價值觀與宗教思想，能否選擇面對並解決複雜的難題，或是撇過頭去裝聾作啞？** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement **WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut'Masterly.' The Times'Miraculous.' Herald'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín'Stunning.' Sunday Independent'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas StuartIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Claire KeeganClaire Keegan was brought up on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than 20 languages. Foster was named by The Times as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st Century. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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