Milkman: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
Written by Anna Burns
Narrated by Bríd Brennan
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About this audiobook
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.
Editor's Note
Man Booker winner…
Anna Burns pulled off an upset and made history by becoming the first author from Northern Ireland to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2018. The judges described the language of this darkly comic novel as “simply marvelous; beginning with the distinctive and consistently realized voice of the funny, resilient, astute, plain-spoken, first-person protagonist.”
Anna Burns
Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in East Sussex, England.
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Reviews for Milkman
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This is a very big disappointment. Very repetitive, stream of conscious certainly not deserving of the Man Booker Award. Wash Black was far superior.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All in all a light touch to a heavy subject. Great writing and very good narrator. Not sure I would have persevered had I read the book but I would have been the loser.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was wonderful! I need more books narrated by Bríd Brennan.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I originally gave up listening to this book about a third of the way through, but I'm glad I decided to give it a second chance. This book takes time to build and it can be hard to follow with the stream of consciousness writing; however if you're able to stick it out you'll be rewarded with a great story and genuinely funny writing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incomparable wit. Have relistened and reread many times over the year.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not for everyone, but absolutely fabulous. Smart, witty portrayal of real life during the troubles.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I tried reading this and couldn’t, but I found the audiobook and started to listen to it. It was moving, frustrating, deep, shallow, all at the same time. A picture of complex relationships. And of a time and place I know so little of.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I have no idea how this is so popular. I found it to be the literary version of The Gilmore girls. Non stop words with no real meaning. Couldn’t get passed the half way mark.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Irishness of it and the mindset of some of the people
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The narrator was awesome, but I didn't particularly enjoy the book in itself.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting book, Anna Burns, while not delving into details of political problems of 1970s Ireland, makes you relate with the main heroine while achieving to describe the deep and difficult life of a girl who comes of age in a tumultuous times
Nice narrator with Irish accent - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Funny, real, honest, witty, serious, addresses important issues,
Highly recommended - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I really tried to get through this due to its critical acclaim and interesting subject matter but just couldn't make myself finish the last third. The detached style of prose and lack of names was fine if not gimmicky, it was more the inability to draw the characters fully which I found made the whole story dull. I just wasn't invested in them and I didn't particularly enjoy the cool tone either, I'm not sure what it lent to the narrative. Moreover there were several passages that droned on and on about the minutiae without lending any extra gravitas to the meaning. Overall a disappointment for me unfortunately.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Muy bien escrito, muy bien narrado. Un poco repetitivo pero valió la pena!