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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.
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Les trois lumières, Claire Keegan, Jacqueline Odin
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Les trois lumières
- Subtitle
- Récit traduit de l'anglais (Irlande) par Jacqueline Odin
- Language
- French
- Authors
- Claire Keegan, Jacqueline Odin
- Publisher
- Sabine Wespieser
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 108
- ISBN10
- 2848050950
- ISBN13
- 9782848050959
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Short Stories, Children, Literary Fiction, Novellas, Girls, Ireland, Childhood, Irish Literature, Summer, Poverty, Narration, Farms, Homesteads, Nursing, Caregiving, Darkness
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- Foster
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- 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.