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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018In 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. (From the publisher)
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[02/12/2021] Silverchild. Δείτε όλα τα σχόλια του χρήστηΒαθμολογία:
It's about a young girl living in Northe
Ireland in the time of the Troubles that was the 1970's. We only get that from the blurb, actually a quote on the back cover, because no name is mentioned in the book, either of a place or a person. The author uses nicknames for everyone. The main character, middle sister is an 18 year old girl who has a maybe boyfriend and goes about her life in a politically very tensed environment, when she becomes the object of desire of one of the renouncers of state (IRA?) with the nickname Milkman.
Well, it's definitely not an easy book. I totally understand if someone dnfs it. Long periods and even longer paragraphs, sometimes extending to four pages. But I liked it. I think it worths to persist, because it often gets really funny. Maybe the writing style is a way of showing how people felt living like that then and there.
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