Claire Keegan

"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...

"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...

Qué quietud había ahí arriba, pero ¿por qué nunca estaba en paz? El día aún no despuntaba, y Furlong miró hacia el río oscuro y brillante cuya superficie reflejaba partes equivalentes del pueblo iluminado. Eran tantas las cosas que se veían mejor, cuando no estaban tan cerca. No pudo decir cuál prefería, si la vista del pueblo o su reflejo en el agua. Invierno de 1985 en un pequeño pueblo irlandés. Bill Furlong es un hombre amable y...

Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.