Bøger af Claire Keegan

En lille, unavngiven pige vokser op i en fattig familie i 1980’ernes Irland. Hendes mor er gravid igen, og derfor sender forældrene pigen i pleje på ubestemt tid.På gården i det sydøstlige Irland vokser grøntsagerne i overflod, køerne giver rigeligt med mælk, og sommeren er varm og åben. Her oplever pigen for første gang, hvordan det føles at blive mødt med omsorg og forståelse – men da en familiehemmelighed afsløres for hende, mærker hun samtidig, hvor skrøbeligt det hele er.Om forfatteren:Claire Keegan (f. 1968) er irsk forfatter. Hun har tidligere udgivet to novellesamlinger og vundet priser som The Olive Cook Award, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature og The William Trevor Prize. Hendes noveller er oversat til 17 sprog. I november 2021 udkom Keegans kortroman "Den slags små ting" på dansk.

"Den slags små ting" er en tidløs og universel historie fra 1980’ernes Irland og en rørende fortælling om menneskelighed og mod.Bill Furlong og hans familie har travlt i dagene op til jul. Mens hans kone og fem døtre gør klar til familiens festmåltid, skal kulhandleren Bill ud med leverancer til hele byen. Midt i de praktiske gøremål begynder nogle af tilværelsens store spørgsmål at trænge sig på. Bills mor arbejdede som hushjælp, og selvom hun blev gravid som 15-årig, fik hun og Bill højst usædvanligt lov at blive i huset. I timerne op til jul tænker Bill ikke kun på, at han aldrig har fået at vide, hvem hans far var – han spekulerer også over, hvor lidt, der skulle til, før hans liv var blevet helt anderledes.Dagens sidste leverance er til byens kloster. Udover nonnerne, der har en magtfuld position i det lille katolske samfund, huser klosteret en række unge, ugifte piger, som er blevet gravide og derfor må skjules for omverdenen. Men da Bill ankommer, ser han noget, der hvirvler hans fortid op og sætter ham i et moralsk dilemma. Om forfatteren:Claire Keegan (f. 1968) er irsk forfatter. Hun har tidligere udgivet to novellesamlinger og vundet priser som The Olive Cook Award, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature og The William Trevor Prize. Hendes noveller er oversat til 17 sprog. I 2022 udkommer Keegans kortroman Foster (2010) på dansk under titlen "Omsorg".

"I sidste øjeblik" er tre noveller om forholdet mellem kvinder og mænd. Hvordan var livet blevet for Cathal i titelnovellen, hvis han havde opført sig anderledes over for sin forlovede? I "En lang og smertefuld død" forstyrres en forfatter på sit skriveophold i Heinrich Bölls hus af en bedrevidende og nedladende tysk akademiker. Det bliver straffet. Og i "Antarctica" tager en gift kvinde udenbys for at dyrke sex med en fremmed."I sidste øjeblik" er noveller om kærlighed, begær, svigt og kvindehad og de evigt fascinerende dynamikker mellem kvinder og mænd og vores forventninger til hinanden. Om forfatteren:Claire Keegan (f. 1968) har udgivet "Den slags små ting" (da. 2021) og "Omsorg" (da. 2022), som danner baggrund for den Oscar-nominerede film The Quiet Girl. Hun har modtaget en række prestigefyldte priser, bl.a. Los Angeles Times Book of the Year og The William Trevor Prize.

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel 'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart 'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss 'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinead Gleeson It 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. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. 'Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Toibin 'A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.' Andrew O'Hagan 'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.' David Hayden

En funklende samling af noveller om et Irland, der kæmper med sin fortid, og om mennesker, der søger en ny fremtid. En kvinde flytter ind hos en præst og sætter ild til hans møbler. En landmand vågner halvnøgen og indser, at pengene er væk. En kvinde rejser ud for at skrive, men bliver konfronteret af en ubuden gæst. En præst kæmper med mindet om en kærlighedsaffære, og en skovridder rejser til en kystby for at finde sig en kone. "Over de blå marker består" af otte uforglemmelige noveller om tidløs fortvivlelse og længsel af anmelderroste Claire Keegan.Om forfatteren:Claire Keegan (f. 1968) har tidligere udgivet "Den slags små ting" (da. 2021) og "Omsorg" (da. 2022), som danner baggrund for den Oscar-nominerede film "The Quiet Girl". Hun har modtaget en række prestigefyldte priser, bl.a. Los Angeles Times Book of the Year og The William Trevor Prize.

From the opening story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind - to sleep with another man - Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal and fragile relationships. In 'House Calls', Cordelia wakes on the last day ofthe twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting. In 'The Singing Cashier', a local postman visits two sisters bearingfishy gifts in the hope that his favour will be returned in kind. One of the most moving and disturbing stories in the collection, 'Passport Soup', features Frank Corso, who sits alone eating green tomatoes and bacon, mourning the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter: 'At one point in that late evening, she was there, and then she wasn't.' Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. Compassionate, witty and unsettling, Antarctica is a collection to be savoured.

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without 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. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan's great accomplishment and talent.

"Reading Irish-born Claire Keegan is like succumbing to a drug: eerie, hallucinogenic, time-stopping." --San Francisco ChronicleA new edition of the now iconic fiction writer Claire Keegan's debut story collection featuring a new woodcut cover to tie in with her current bestselling trio: the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These, Foster, and So Late in the DayFirst published in 1999 to great acclaim, Antarctica introduced the world to Claire Keegan whose powerful short fiction has captured audiences internationally and is considered "nothing short of a masterpiece" (New York Times). Now with a recently revised titular story, Antarctica showcases the brilliance of Keegan's spare yet piercing storytelling, evident from the very start of her career.In "Antarctica," a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with a man other than her husband. "Love in the Tall Grass" takes Cordelia down a coastal road on the last day of the twentieth century to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting. "Stay Close to the Water's Edge" tells of a young Harvard student who is pitilessly humiliated by his homophobic stepfather on his birthday. Keegan's writing contains a clear vision of unaffected truths and boldly explores a world where dreams, memory, and chance have crippling consequences for those involved. Often dark and enveloped in a palpable atmosphere, the reader feels that something momentous is lurking within each of these carefully sculpted tales.Winner of several prestigious prizes including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the William Trevor Prize, and the Martin Healy Award, Antarctica remains a dazzling and haunting debut by one of the world's best short story writers.

So Late in the Day, eng, Claire Keegan, 2023-08-31, Faber & Faber

Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 2007.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

A 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.