Milkman

Anna Burns

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Faber & Faber
13 June 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

ABBEY’S BOOKSELLER PICK —— Yes, it is really that good! The use of language is inventive but never feels self-consciously experimental. A timely yet universal novel about gender, power and the complicity of a community wedded to sectarianism. Gavin Sladen

MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2018

Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place, Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished.

Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, 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 searingly honest novel told in prose that is as precise and unsentimental as it is devastating and brutal. A novel that is at once unlocated and profoundly tethered to place is surely a novel for our times.

By: Anna Burns
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780571338740
ISBN 10: 0571338747
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 13 June 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.