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Milkman

by Anna Burns


Winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2018. Sshortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Eason Book Club Novel of the Year Award for 2018 and for the Women's Prize for Fiction for 2019.

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.

368 pages.

Main Edition

ISBN: 9780571338757

€ 12.50 

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Date of Publication: 29/09/2018

  
Cover of Milkman - Anna Burns - 9780571338757Paperback

Milkman also appears in these Categories:

Fiction

Booker Prize

Women's Prize for Fiction