Milkman (eBook)

Anna Burns (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33876-4 (ISBN)

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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'Utterly compelling' Irish Times 'Original, funny, disarmingly oblique' CLAIRE KILROY 'A triumph.' Guardian In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . . SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION

Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of three novels - No Bones,Little Constructions, and Milkman - and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has, to date, won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize.

Rezensionen

I thought this was an incredible book and I'm still reeling from it. Anna Burns brilliantly mines the interstices of language to give articulation to the slippery machinations of prejudice and intimidation. She describes those things which are never normally described - those marginalised experiences created by insidious, corrosive and unnameable hurts... Her writing is uncompromising, powerful, essential.

Those who recall Anna Burns's searing debut No Bones (2001) and the extremely strange, utterly brilliant but obviously opaque Little Constructions (2007) and Mostly Hero (2014), will really want to grab a copy of Milkman and take it hostage. This is a sensational and macabre novel, bringing Burns (almost) back into the mainstream, possibly the best novel from or about Northern Ireland in a decade certainly the one which peels back the skin of insidious sectarianism with a shocking frankness which repeatedly prompts applause.

Profound, punchy, powerful prose... A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness, it's thought-provoking stuff.

Utterly brilliant - a once-in-a-generation novel.

A darkly funny novel about Seventies Belfast that leaves words ominously unspoken.

A masterclass in technique, Burns' powerful, disturbing book is not for anyone who prefers their reading cosy or comforting.

'This darkly comic novel, set in the Seventies, takes place in a "hair-trigger society" of bomb scares, hijackings, murals - but nothing must be named, not the city of Belfast, not the IRA, not even the narrator. The jokes, like the plot, come out viciously askew.'

'Told in a glorious rush of words, it's funny, desperate and compulsively readable.'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Audiobooks • Belfast • Belfast novel • bernardine evaristo • Bernardine Evaristo Girl Woman Other • Booker Prize • booker prize 2018 • booker shortlist 2018 • booker winner 2018 • Daisy Johnson • Edna O'Brien new book • Eimar McBride new book • Eimear Macbride new book • Eimear McBride new book • Eimer Macbride new book • George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Discomfort of Evening Marieke Luka Rjinvald • Hilary Mantel • Irish Belfast Dublin Derry The Troubles Lyra McKee • John Banville new book • John Lanchester Max Porter Kamila Shamsie Anne Enright • Jokha Alharthi Richard Powers Paul Beatty Rachel Kushner Richard Flanagan Delia Owns Where the Crawdads Sing Marlon James Daisy Johnson Esi Edugyan • little constructions • Longlist • lyra mckee • Man Booker • man booker prize winner • Man Booker Prize Winner IMPAC Prize Libraries Rathbones Folio Women's Prize Orwell Prize for Political Fiction winner shortlist • Orwell Prize • political novel prize • sally rooney • Sally Rooney new book • Shortlist • shortlisted • Sophie Mackintosh • The Troubles • Women's Prize for Fiction
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33876-3 / 0571338763
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33876-4 / 9780571338764