Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan (Ukrainian Edition)

This is the Ukrainian edition of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, translated by Tetiana Savchynska. It is a short, quiet book that stays with you for a long time: barely a hundred pages, yet it asks one of the hardest questions there is: what do you do when doing the right thing could cost you everything?

Ireland, December 1985. Bill Furlong is a coal and timber merchant working flat out before Christmas so his five daughters will want for nothing. On a delivery to the local convent he sees something the whole town prefers not to see: the women of the Magdalene laundry and the silence that protects the institution. Keegan writes with remarkable restraint. There are no grand speeches, only frost, small kindnesses and a man who cannot unsee what he has seen.

A good choice for readers who like literary fiction that is precise, warm and morally serious, and a beautiful book to read in one winter evening or to give as a Christmas gift. The novella was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a film starring Cillian Murphy.

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Edition details

• Language: Ukrainian
• Author: Claire Keegan
• Translator: Tetiana Savchynska
• Publisher: Old Lion Publishing House (Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva)
• Year: 2026
• Pages: 104
• Cover: Hardcover
• Format: 130х200 mm
• ISBN: 978-966-448-711-2