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Milkman

Anna Burns

4

awards won

51

score

#2 of 8,085 books · #1 in Crime & Thriller

Won the International Dublin Literary Award (2020), the Booker Prize (2018), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2018), and 1 more award. Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2018, Milkman tells the story of an unnamed city where 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.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9781644451007
Topics
Surveillance and gossipPolitical violence and conflictComing of ageFemale autonomyCommunity and paranoia

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