Small things like this

　　Wu Hsiao-lo Exclusive Recommendation

　　❋ 2022 Orwell Prize Winner
　　❋ Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
　　❋ 2023 Irish Book Awards Author of the Year
　　❋ Recipient of the 2024 Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Literature and the Siegfried Lenz Prize
　　❋ Film adaptation starring "Oppenheimer" Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy

　　"Claire Keegan's stories are pure, beautiful, tender, and heartbreaking. A short book that will utterly shatter you. I read it on the train and cried my eyes out." — Cillian Murphy

　　A lifetime is accumulated from countless small things.
　　They are all small things, so why the constant fear and worry?

　　In the winter of 1985 in Ireland, a great chill raged. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, coal merchant Bill Furlong was swamped with work. In the frozen town, only three types of people could freely enter and exit neighbors' front and back doors: priests, doctors, and coal deliverymen. One cold morning, as Bill personally delivered coal to the local convent, he unexpectedly discovered a disheveled, barefoot girl locked in the coal shed...

　　The moving, globally best-selling novel "Small Things Like These" is a story about hope, silent courage, and human empathy. In the blink of an eye, it awakens readers to the potential for kindness and change.

　　"Christmas always brings out the best and worst in people."

　　A December filled with crows. Are we accustomed to suffering, or do we simply choose to look away?
　　Sometimes, the real story doesn't want to be told.

　　"Claire Keegan has the ability to tell a story in a paragraph, or condense a novel into a few thousand words." — The New York Times

　　The power of brevity. Claire Keegan writes infrequently and publishes rarely. But critics, readers, and booksellers have taken notice. This is a small book, and while the author's depicted town may be small, it is rich in detail, simple in language, and close to perfection. When one is accustomed to a difficult life, one may lack the capacity to deviate from the norm, thus the crisis of conscience in this moral encounter has garnered enthusiastic responses from fans worldwide. Over a writing career of twenty-five years, Claire Keegan has published a total of only approximately 140,000 words, compiled into five works, translated into over thirty-five languages. Although her work is scarce, it is included in school curricula and has won numerous awards and a passionate following from independent booksellers.

　　"Small Things Like These" is a 40,000-word book that the author spent nearly ten years writing. Though small, it is a story of an egg against a wall, possessing both universal and cautionary spirit. Published in 2021, it has become a landmark masterpiece.