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Carregando... Milkman (2018)de Anna Burns
  
» 18 mais Books Read in 2019 (105) Books Read in 2020 (294) Booker Prize (274) Books Read in 2023 (3,309) A's favorite novels (35) Five star books (1,167) Female Author (1,026) Irish writers (64) World Books (11) EU Fiction: 1950-2022 (209) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I listened to the audiobook version of Milkman by Anna Burns, narrated by Brid Brennan, and I loved it. The performance is fantastic. I would highly recommend listening to this book if you are interested in it. (  ) BillPilgrim | Aug 3, 2023 |  From the first page I was filled with rage and fear and contempt. Then about halfway through things started shifting, there were some unexpected turns, I was still afraid but the rage was less and the contempt was near gone. By the last page I was addicted, swooning, riding that what-an-awesome-book high. ( ) blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 | Much to admire, but a tough row to hoe. (  ) Mcdede | Jul 19, 2023 | Milkman is not an easy read, and it's slow, what with the long run on sentences and the lack of any proper names. I began calling it the anti-Ulysses, because it seemed to be the polar opposite of that book in virtually every way, and, in doing so, I became intrigued enough to see if that was what Anna Burns was really up to. After finishing the book, I still don't know, but I really appreciated this coming of age in a war zone book. It was more feminist than I had realized. (  ) vwinsloe | May 21, 2023 | The word that springs to mind upon finishing this book is torturous. There is no doubt that this book joins, if not tops, my list of top ten worst works of literary fiction. To be honest, there is an interesting novel in here somewhere, but the voice, the voice is just completely annoying and overshadows everything else in the book. It’s original. It’s just not original in a good way. Let’s focus on the good for a moment. The central character, Middle Sister, is narrating the tale. Her character is well developed, and the novel has some astute observations on the dangers of false rumors and innuendo. And about fear. In addition, there are several sections about Middle Sister’s mother, and these are wittily rendered. A LOT happens in this book; characters lie, die, and cry; it should have been so much more interesting than it was. The plotline was completely overshadowed by the repetitious, oddly voiced storytelling. The problem is that is just feels like one long, tedious story about people you don’t care about. It is very repetitive, and these repetitive sections have some poetic rhythms to them which I would have appreciated had they been in much smaller doses. Much, much smaller. Instead, it took me more than a week to read this relatively short novel, and I was seriously trying. I never DNF, but I came so close. The last 20% was an improvement, but not enough to endure the first 80%. All that being said, watch this one win . . . UPDATE: And now, this book that I absolutely hated has won the 2018 Man Booker. *gag* (  ) Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
Als Anna Burns 2018 für ihren Roman Milkman mit dem Man-Booker-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde, tobte das verbissene politische Ringen um eine harte oder grüne EU-Außengrenze zwischen Irland und Nordirland. Burns konnte, als sie mit dem Roman über Belfast in den 1970ern zur Zeit des Nordirlandkonflikts begann, nicht absehen, dass er ein Buch der Stunde würde. Die Angst, dass der EU-Austritt Großbritanniens alte Wunden aufbrechen lassen könnte, ist heute aber noch immer nicht ausgestanden.  The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died,” begins this strange and intriguing novel that tackles the Northern Ireland conflict from the perspective of an 18-year-old girl with no interest in the Troubles...Anna Burns, who was shortlisted for the Orange prize in 2002 with No Bones, which also depicted the Troubles, is excellent at evoking the strange ecosystem that emerges during protracted conflict – “this psycho-political atmosphere, with its rules of allegiance, of tribal identification...What starts out as a study of how things go wrong becomes a study in how things go right, and the green shoots are not the work of the paramilitaries. The narrator of Milkman disrupts the status quo not through being political, heroic or violently opposed, but because she is original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique: different. The same can be said of this book. PrêmiosNotable Lists
In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes interesting, the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister's attempts to avoid him and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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