Booker Prize
The ordinary part of us: „Small Things Like These“ by Claire Keegan
Young Irish writer Claire Keegan’s „Small Things Like These“ is the shortest novel to ever have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. With its dark story about one of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries, it is also one of the most touching and honest novels of the list, its apparent simplicity revealing the utter complexities of the human soul.
(C) Frédéric Stucin
„Was there any point in being alive without helping one another?“ This is the conclusive, simple and poignant question main character Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, asks himself at the very end of this short, gripping novel that portrays an Irish town in 1985.