{"product_id":"milkman-by-anna-burns-9780571338757","title":"Milkman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'Driven by voice; musical, wild, playful and furious. I was in awe of the author.' — Sofie Laguna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eMilkman\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilkman\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"[Milkman] seeth[es] with black humour and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities... For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control—political, gendered, sectarian, communal—\u003ci\u003eMilkman\u003c\/i\u003e can be charmingly wry.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"A triumph of voice... darkly hilarious.\" — Justine Jordan \u003ci\u003e― Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"Profound, punchy, powerful prose... A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness, it's thought-provoking stuff.\" — \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph, STELLA, Stella Loves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"This is a powerful, funny and sometimes immensely beautiful novel, with a female lead whose life is a low-key renunciation of the violence that shook her city for a generation.\" — \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune (Minneapolis)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"At once intimate and universal, historical and fabulistic and timely, unconventional and almost sentimentally hopeful.\" — \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712707252460,"sku":"9780571338757","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571338757.webp?v=1768160985","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/milkman-by-anna-burns-9780571338757","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}