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Walk the Blue Fields

內容簡介

內容簡介 《愛爾蘭時報》評選為21世紀百大愛爾蘭著作一名長髮女子搬進了神父的住所，並放火燒掉了他的家具。那年聖誕節，電力中斷。一位林務員抵押了他的土地，前往海濱小鎮尋找妻子，他在飯店裡遇見一名獨自用餐的女人。一位農民半裸著醒來，意識到積蓄已幾乎耗盡。而在與書名同名的短篇故事中，一名神父在祭壇旁等待新娘，並在整個婚禮當天，與自己過往戀情的記憶激烈掙扎。在讀者期待已久的第二部短篇小說集中，克萊兒．吉根細膩觀察著那個正與過去痛苦博弈的愛爾蘭。

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各界推薦 Keegan's new collection of short stories shows her on impressive form... [she] is magnificent at capturing the rapturous, brimming vigour of the present and of nature. ― Observer - Paperback of the week'Like Chekhov, Keegan has the ability to sum up a life, or a significant chunk of one, in apparently trivial, quotidian events... there is as much food for thought here as in many a novel. All the stories are set in rural Ireland. They tell of harsh, lonely lives, alleviated by drink or dreams, in a voice that is lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through it. ― Independent on SundayKeegan, with her stately, rhythmic, always physical prose, adds the timing of her masters, McGahern and Trevor to her imaginative realist's art. She has a wickedly crafted assurance, subversive wit, an awareness of enduring customs and superstitions, and a sense of place. ― Irish TimesIt takes a confident writer indeed to begin a collection o of short stories with the tale of a woman who is struggling to star a story. The potential pitfalls are tremendous, and it is testament to Claire Keegan's tremendous abilities that she not only doesn't falter, but also casually encapsulates the magic of her own approach... Keegan hs an eerily acute ear for dialogue, but her real gift is for what goes unsaid. Each one of her cast of priests and farmers, daughters ad wives conceals secrets: longings and frustrations that sometimes curdle and sometimes blossom in unexpected ways. Whatever the outcome, these are exquisite stories, so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as the entirely bewitch. ― Guardian

作者介紹

作者介紹 Claire KeeganClaire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been translated into more than thirty-five 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, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 《愛爾蘭時報》評選為21世紀百大愛爾蘭著作。繼《Small Things Like These》(像這樣的小事)，作者Claire Keegan第二本短篇故事集，細膩觀察著那個正與過去痛苦博弈的愛爾蘭。