Keynote
“Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian (UK)
Book Title
Milkman
Subtitle
A Novel
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- Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Winner of the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Winner of the 2020 International DUBLIN Literary Award
A Kirkus Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)
A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
Body
In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him—and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend—rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. 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.
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Credit: Eleni Stefanou
Praise
- “Milkman is a strange animal; it asks a lot, but gives something back, too: the electric jolt of a voice that feels utterly, sensationally new.”—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A–)
- “[Burns’] style powerfully evokes the narrator’s sense of emotional entrapment. . . . Milkman makes a passionate claim for freethinking in a place where monochromatic, us-versus-them ideology prevails.”—USA Today
- “Milkman vibrates with the anxieties of our own era, from terrorism to sexual harassment to the blinding divisions that make reconciliation feel impossible. . . . It’s as though the intense pressure of this place has compressed the elements of comedy and horror to produce some new alloy.”—The Washington Post
- “Brutally intelligent. . . . At its core, Milkman is [a] wildly good and true novel of how living in fear limits people.”—NPR.org
