Antarctica
‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ THE TIMES
$23.46
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2026
Summary
‘A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.’ SEBASTIAN BARRY ‘Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.’ GEORGE SAUNDERS ‘Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.’ OBSERVER
A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister’s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571396795 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571396798 |
| Author: | Claire Keegan |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 220mm x 137mm |
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About The Author
Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s stories 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, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
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