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Milkman
eBook - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
ISBN/EAN: 9780571338764
Umbreit-Nr.: 5731737
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 352 S., 0.36 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.05.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'Utterly compelling' Irish Times'Original, funny, disarmingly oblique' CLAIRE KILROY'A triumph.' GuardianIn an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man,'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . .SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
- Autorenportrait
- Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two previous novels,No Bones andLittle Constructions, and of the novellaMostly Hero.No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.Milkman has, to date, won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize.