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Milkman is a historical psychological fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl, "middle sister," who is harassed by an older married man known as "the milkman" and then as "Milkman".It is Burns's first novel to be published after Little Constructions in 2007, and is her third overall.
May 15, 2018 · Anna Burns. 3.53. 62,503 ratings9,167 reviews. 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 ...
May 17, 2018 · Mark O’Connell, Slate ‘For all the simplicity of its setup, Milkman is a richly complex portrayal of a besieged community and its traumatized citizens, of lives lived within many concentric circles of oppression […] Among Burns’ singular strengths as a writer is her ability to address the topics of trauma and tyranny with a playfulness that somehow never diminishes the sense of her ...
Apr 14, 2023 · The voice of ‘middle sister’, the narrator of Anna Burns’ 2018 Booker Prize-winning novel, Milkman, is so urgent and peculiar - and so specifically Northern Irish - that it felt recognisable to me from its first words.‘The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me,’ the Belfast teenager begins her story, ‘was the same day the ...
May 15, 2018 · “[Milkman] seeth[es] with black humor 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 “Brutally intelligent. . . . At its core, Milkman is [a] wildly good and true novel of how living in fear ...
Nov 15, 2018 · Anna Burns won the Man Booker prize for ‘Milkman', which paints a stark picture of how division hardens people. Irish writer Anna Burns's novel Milkman, her third and the winner of this year's prestigious Booker Prize, is an agonising, Kafkaesque journey through a tangled psychological labyrinth led by the story's narrator, an unnamed 18-year ...
Dec 4, 2018 · Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day.
May 15, 2018 · Milkman shares this level of ambition; it is an impressive, wordy, often funny book and confirms Anna Burns as one of our rising literary stars.-- Adrian McKinty ― Irish Times I thought this was an incredible book and I'm still reeling from it.
- Anna Burns
Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day.
Milkman shares this level of ambition; it is an impressive, wordy, often funny book and confirms Anna Burns as one of our rising literary stars. -- Adrian McKinty ― Irish Times A darkly funny novel about Seventies Belfast that leaves words ominously unspoken.
- Anna Burns
