Milkman

Anna Burns

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Faber & Faber
06 May 2019

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

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

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 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

'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

By: Anna Burns
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9780571338757
ISBN 10: 0571338755
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 06 May 2019
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.