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Milkman: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 by Anna Burns is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the 2018 Man Booker PrizeAnna Burns offers a tale of gossip & hearsay, silence & deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences. Burns’ tale takes the reader down the rabbit-hole of late 1970s Northern Ireland during its 30-year conflict: the Troubles°°°In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our 18-year-old protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend & to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman, a powerful & frightening older man. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, & rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed & to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, & she is no longer in control . . ."For all the simplicity of its setup, Milkman is a richly complex portrayal of a besieged community & its traumatized citizens, of lives lived within many concentric circles of oppression...There is a pulsating menace at the heart of the book, of which the title character is an uncannily indeterminate avatar, but also a deep sadn

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Author

Anna Burns

Publisher

Faber and Faber Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571338764

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities