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Milkman
#1 IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
'Driven by voice; musical, wild, playful and furious. I was in awe of the author.' — Sofie Laguna
"[Milkman] seeth[es] with black humour and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities... For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control—political, gendered, sectarian, communal—Milkman can be charmingly wry." — The New Yorker
"A triumph of voice... darkly hilarious." — Justine Jordan ― Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"Profound, punchy, powerful prose... A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness, it's thought-provoking stuff." — Sunday Telegraph, STELLA, Stella Loves
"This is a powerful, funny and sometimes immensely beautiful novel, with a female lead whose life is a low-key renunciation of the violence that shook her city for a generation." — Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"At once intimate and universal, historical and fabulistic and timely, unconventional and almost sentimentally hopeful." — Vulture
WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
'Driven by voice; musical, wild, playful and furious. I was in awe of the author.' — Sofie Laguna
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous.
Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
"[Milkman] seeth[es] with black humour and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities... For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control—political, gendered, sectarian, communal—Milkman can be charmingly wry." — The New Yorker
"A triumph of voice... darkly hilarious." — Justine Jordan ― Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"Profound, punchy, powerful prose... A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness, it's thought-provoking stuff." — Sunday Telegraph, STELLA, Stella Loves
"This is a powerful, funny and sometimes immensely beautiful novel, with a female lead whose life is a low-key renunciation of the violence that shook her city for a generation." — Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"At once intimate and universal, historical and fabulistic and timely, unconventional and almost sentimentally hopeful." — Vulture
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Milkman by Anna Burns is lauded for its unique narrative style and the way it captures the tension of living in a divided society. The protagonist's voice is both idiosyncratic and compelling, offering an intimate look at the complexities of community and individual identity. Critics have praised its ability to convey the pervasive atmosphere of fear, ambiguity, and the surreal aspects of daily life during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780571338757
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 September 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 304g
Pages: 368
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About the Author
Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella, Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in East Sussex, England.
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