Milkman
by Anna Burns · 2018
Literary Fiction · ranked #222 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2018
An eighteen-year-old woman in an unnamed city during 'the Troubles' is stalked by a much older paramilitary figure known only as 'the milkman' — and finds that resisting his attention makes her the subject of community gossip and suspicion. Burns's Booker Prize-winning novel, narrated by a woman known only as 'middle sister,' is written in a dense, looping, deliberately unnamed style that captures the paranoid texture of life under constant surveillance.
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- Literary Fiction
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- Anna Burns
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- Essential Read
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