𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖 (2023 𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣)《南極》2023年新版
精準且深刻地洞察了人我關係的疏離與脆弱，《Small Things like These》、《Foster》Claire Keegan文壇出道作，甫出版便一鳴驚人地奪下魯尼愛爾蘭文學獎、威廉特雷弗文學獎及洛杉磯時報2001年最佳圖書。
一場祕密的婚外情。
與九年未見的愛人共度的20世紀末最後一日。
被繼父無情嘲弄性向的高材生。
15則短篇故事中，涵蓋了各種各樣不完美的角色。在Keegan如手術刀般精準的目光下，看這些帶著缺陷，性格複雜鮮活的人們，在人我連結微弱又淡薄的世界裡，如何掙扎著去愛、去逃離、去追索、去拼湊意義。
書中文字機敏優美而富穿透力地直指那些猝不及防的心碎時刻，如同書名及首篇故事《Antarctica》，讀者彷彿看見Keegan以凜冽如冰的透徹目光，不帶嘲弄地掃視每個人畢生追尋某些東西及其意義—而這一切到頭來，極有可能是徒勞一場—的過程。
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These
‘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.
