Winner of the 2018 Booker Winner of the 2018 NBCC Fiction

Milkman

Name: Milkman
ISBN: 1644450003

by Anna Burns

Recorded edition: Graywolf Press · 12/4/2018 · ISBN 1644450003 · Edition source

Approximately 360 pages

Estimated reading time: 9–12 hours at 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate.

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First publication: 2018. Publication dates and pagination vary by edition.

What is this book about?

Set against the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Milkman follows an eighteen-year-old known as middle sister. An older married man, called the milkman, begins harassing her. Anna Burns builds the story around this young woman’s circumstances within a politically divided society.

It is Burns’s third novel, following Little Constructions. Milkman won the 2018 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for 2018, followed by the International Dublin Literary Award in 2020. The different dates refer to separate awards for the same novel.