Milkman

Resumen del libro

Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished.Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about).

But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, 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 searingly honest novel told in prose that is as precise and unsentimental as it is devastating and brutal.

A novel that is at once unlocated and profoundly tethered to place is surely a novel for our times.

Biografía del autor

Anna Burns nació en Belfast, Irlanda del Norte. Es la autora de dos novelas, " No Bones " y " Little Constructions " , y de la novela corta " Mostly Hero " . " No Bones " ganó el premio Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize y fue finalista del premio Orange de ficción. Vive en East Sussex, Inglaterra. " Milkman " , una novela sobre el acoso sexual y las relaciones de poder, le ha valido a Burns el Premio Man Booker 2018.