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So Late in the Day

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內容簡介 《Small Things Like These》(像這樣的小事)作者Claire Keegan文筆精緻、細膩動人的故事，描寫一名內心不滿足的男子，在搭乘回家公車的途中，回望那段錯失的愛情。「真正一代僅見的作家。」——《泰晤士報》「每一個字都恰如其分，產生的效果餘韻悠長、深深撼動人心。」——希拉蕊・曼特爾「克萊兒・基根讓瞬間變得真實，然後讓它們變得重要。」——科姆・托賓在都柏林的辦公室度過一個平淡無奇的星期五後，卡薩爾迎向漫長的週末，搭上公車返家。在車上，他的思緒反覆翻攪，想起一名叫莎賓的女子——若當年他有不同的選擇，也許能與她共度一生。整個夜晚，只有電視與一瓶香檳相伴，關於這名女子以及其他人的回憶不斷闖入他的腦海，而這個特定日子的真正意義，也逐漸浮現。《So Late in the Day》出自世界級作家之手，拋出一個耐人尋味的提問：缺乏慷慨與體貼，是否會毀掉男女之間本可發生的一切？From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, an exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away.'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' THE TIMES'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' HILARY MANTEL'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' COLM TÓIBÍNAfter an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he might have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.From one of the world's great writers, So Late in the Day asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.

各界推薦

各界推薦 One of the great, affecting and powerful Irish voices. -- Sarah Jessica ParkerKeegan is the goddess of small things. Her ability to conjure whole worlds from a few words, an entire relationship from a handful of exchanges, is little short of miraculous. ― HeraldClaire Keegan is my favourite writer in the English language. -- Dennis LehaneKeegan's fiction makes most novels look too fancy; her short stories make most prose seem too plain. Her inner and outer landscapes, the palpable and the imagined, are all of a piece. You think you are just looking - it turns out you are travelling. ― London Review of BooksBrevity is unusually satisfying in Keegan's hands . . . Even in her earliest stories she is a superb stylist: every well-structured paragraph contains multitudes; at sentence level there is a febrile power to her word choices and rhythms . . . there is no overthinking or showing off. Instead, Keegan offers plausibility rooted in vivid details that generate a complex emotional authenticity. It is incredibly engrossing . . . Each brief work is worth the wait: Keegan is something special ― Sunday TimesA mini-masterpiece . . . There is nothing demonstrative about this prose, which is not spare but restrained, strategically discharging touches of eloquence only when needed, and not through a profusion of descriptive detail, but through choice adjectives and verbs that just stray from the literal . . . Keegan stands almost without rival. ― Irish Times

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 : 《Small Things Like These》(像這樣的小事)作者Claire Keegan文筆精緻、細膩動人的故事，描寫一名內心不滿足的男子，在搭乘回家公車的途中，回望那段錯失的愛情。「每一個字都恰如其分，產生的效果餘韻悠長、深深撼動人心。」——《狼廳》希拉蕊・曼特爾