FOSTER
Book ID/图书代码： 03540010B39387
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一个小女孩被送到爱尔兰农村的一个农场和养父母住在一起，但她不知道她什么时候会回家。在陌生人的房子里，她发现了一种她以前不知道的温暖和感情，并慢慢地开始在他们的照顾中绽放。然后一个秘密被发现了，突然间，她意识到她的桃源生活是多么的脆弱。凄美而又诡异，《寄养》是一个有着惊人的情感深度的故事，展示了克莱尔·吉根的卓越才华。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’No better feeling than reading a book that makes you excited to discover everything its author has ever written...’ - Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)
’Foster confirms Claire Keegan’s talent. She creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion’ - Hilary Mantel (Winner of the Booker Prize 2012 and 2009)
’Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.’ - Sarah Moss
’A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.’ - Sinéad Gleeson
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.
About the Author/作者介绍： 克莱尔·吉根，爱尔兰短篇小说作家，1968年生于威克洛郡。1994年开始创作，1999年出版第一部短篇小说集《南极》，获得好评。2007年她出版了第二部短篇小说集《走在蓝色的田野上》，并获得边山短篇小说奖。她的小说语言简洁、笔调冷峻，多写普通人之间的情感和日常生活戏剧冲突，被称为具有雷德蒙·卡佛、威廉·特雷弗等短篇小说作品的神韵。吉根1968年出生在一个信奉天主教的大家庭中，是家中最小的孩子。17岁时，她远赴美国路易斯安那州新奥尔良市洛约拉大学，主修英语和政治学。1992年她回到爱尔兰，后相继到威尔士加迪大学和都柏林三一学院攻读创意写作硕士课程。1994年她开始创作短篇小说，她的两个短篇相继获得两个爱尔兰短篇小说大奖——弗朗西斯·麦克马努斯奖和威廉·特雷弗奖。她的第一部短篇小说《南极》于1999年出版。第二年，她便获得了鲁尼爱尔兰文学奖以及《洛杉矶时报》年度图书奖。
Claire Keegan was born in 1968 and grew up on a farm in Wicklow, the youngest of a large Catholic family. She travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was seventeen and studied English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992. She started writing in 1994 and lived for a year in Cardiff. She took an MA in Creative Writing and taught undergraduates for a year at the University of Wales. Her first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was completed in 1998. It announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of contemporary fiction and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second short story collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Claire Keegan lives in County Louth, Ireland.
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