Anna Burns's Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Milkman, is a powerful fictional tale set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.The story is told through the voice of a teenage girl known only as middle sister, who is coming of age in the...

„Milkman“ von Anna Burns ist ein Roman, der in einer unbenannten Stadt spielt, die stark an Belfast während des Nordirlandkonflikts erinnert. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive einer jungen Frau erzählt, die nur als „Middle Sister“...

Written in a perfectly-rendered Irish vernacular, this return from the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of "Little Constructions" sees the protagonist known as 'Middle sister' struggle to hide the feelings that set her apart in an unnamed...

Debut novel which tracks the tragicomic fortunes of the Lovett family of Catholic Belfast. von Burns, Anna

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. von Burns, Anna

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique."-The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for...