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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICALSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTIONâ ˜Proof that people want to read stimulating novels that make them see the world differently.â ™ DAILY TELEGRAPHâ ˜If Beckett had written a prose poem . . it would read a lot like this.â ™ DAILY MAILIn 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 . . .Anna Burns book Milkman was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2018-12-31, 2018-01-07

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The Milkman s on His Way was first published in 1982 and is one of the first queer young adult novels to appear in the UK. It tells the story of Ewan McCrae, a gay teenager living in Cornwall, struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. To explore his identity, Ewan leaves his claustrophobic home town for London, where he hopes to find people who are just like him. For many gay teenagers of the early 1980s The Milkman s on His Way was a rare chance to read a life-affirming story that put their experience at the centre.

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Good-hearted and brutal at the same time, The Milkman in the Night is a complex, unsettling mixture of bleakness and warmth Sunday TimesRead this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the PenguinSemyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to investigate. After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he s meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesn t know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon. Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kyiv - an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is on the loose...

Objev podobné jako The Milkman in the Night - Andrey Kurkov