Milkman #1 IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
15.05.2018
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
352 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
513 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780571338764
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
'Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.' - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, 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 tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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Eine Geschichte über sprach-und...
Eine Geschichte über sprach-und namelose Menschen in einer dysfunktionalen Gesellschaft, weitschweifig mit Eloquenz und treffsicherem Humor erzählt. Stilistisch ungewöhnlich und einfach hervorragend! -
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But what does it all mean?
"Lincoln in the Bardo", the Booker Prize winner before "Milkman" was my favorite book in a decade or so, and other really great novels have won the Prize over its 50 years - "The Remains of the Day", "The Line of Beauty", "The White Tiger", so of course I have high expectations. It is undeniable that Anna Burns wants to tell her readers something. She has created a weird world about gossip and terror and exaggerated gender roles - it is almost as if Samuel Beckett had tried to replace Margaret Atwood as the writer of "The Handmaid's Tale". However, even though she probably has a clear idea of what she wants to convey, it does not come across. The protagonist, who is said to have an affair with a character called "Milkman" also is low-key harassed by one of her brothers-in-law, has a maybe-boyfriend and an uninterested mother. And she does not give names to anyone but just nouns based on their functions. In theory, this could be right up my alley, but somehow it fails to make me want to engage with the story. So, let's reread "The Handmaid's Tale"!
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