Milkman is a 2018 historical psychological fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. [1] Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl, "middle sister", who is harassed by an older married man known as …

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May 15, 2018 · Set in an unnamed city that's probably Belfast in the 1970s, Milkman follows an unnamed narrator who's believed by her community to be having an affair with a man known only as 'the milkman,' who isn't actually a milkman.

Milkman is author Anna Burns’ third novel and the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize in Fiction (widely regarded as one of the most prestigious awards in literature). Burns was the first Northern Irish writer ever to receive the award, and Milkman’s subject matter is inseparable

Apr 14, 2023 · The voice of ‘middle sister’, the narrator of Anna Burns’ 2018 Booker Prize-winning novel, Milkman, is so urgent and peculiar - and so specifically Northern Irish - that it felt recognisable to me from its first words. ‘The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me,’ the Belfast ...

Dec 4, 2018 · Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day.

May 17, 2018 · Milkman is a work of historical fiction focused on the Troubles, a period of social and political unrest in Northern Ireland. There are several notable works about the same subject that have come out in the last few decades including Burns’s first novel, No Bones (2001).

Dec 4, 2018 · With an immense rush of dazzling language, Burns submerges readers beneath the tensions of life in a police state. It’s “the great Seventies hatred,” ostensibly in Belfast (where Burns was born), where “two warring religions” have …

‘This brilliant and unsettling novel from Irish author Anna Burns is a shaggy dog story – digressive, full of oddball incident and intellectual whimsy […] Milkman is compelling contemporary Irish fiction, canvassing dark material and difficult themes …

Feb 15, 2025 · Anna Burns describes the atmosphere during the Troubles—the fear, the suspicions, the hair-trigger tensions, and the way people followed unspoken rules that everyone was aware of: what you could or could not say, who you could or could not meet, even the names you gave your children.