by Claire Keegan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571203468
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«Antarctica» is Claire Keegan's collection of short stories, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (215 pages, in English).
The opening story follows a married woman who travels to the city to sleep with another man. Keegan portrays fragile relationships, obsessions and betrayals: a postman visits two sisters with gifts of fish; a man mourns his daughter's disappearance while eating green tomatoes and bacon. Characters trapped between dreams, memory and chance.
It is Keegan's first collection of short stories and won the Rooney Prize and the William Trevor Prize.
For readers of contemporary short fiction and Irish narrative; works well in book clubs.
Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review. She is also known for her novellas, two of which have been adapted as films.
