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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan · 2021

Résumé · It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. 

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Malgré sa brièveté, ce roman dégage une force que l'on ne retrouve que peu dans les romans contemporains et dont je n'avais jamais réalisé qu'elle m'importait autant (biberonnée à la Comtesse de Ségur...) : qu'est-ce qu'être « bon » ?

Le 4 juin 2026

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« As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror? »

Le 4 juin 2026