Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella, Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in East Sussex, England.
Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished.
Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous…
發表於2024-03-28
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小說講述Northern Ireland 70年代的曆史,卻全篇沒有提到Irland, Britain, IRA, UDA, Catholic,Protestant等等,而以this side, our religion, their religion, over the road, over the water, defender, renouncer來指代。輔之以Peter Taylor 的紀錄片,勉強瞭解那段曆史的...
評分小說講述Northern Ireland 70年代的曆史,卻全篇沒有提到Irland, Britain, IRA, UDA, Catholic,Protestant等等,而以this side, our religion, their religion, over the road, over the water, defender, renouncer來指代。輔之以Peter Taylor 的紀錄片,勉強瞭解那段曆史的...
評分小說講述Northern Ireland 70年代的曆史,卻全篇沒有提到Irland, Britain, IRA, UDA, Catholic,Protestant等等,而以this side, our religion, their religion, over the road, over the water, defender, renouncer來指代。輔之以Peter Taylor 的紀錄片,勉強瞭解那段曆史的...
評分客觀說說,這本書大概不適閤每個人,要麼喜歡要麼討厭。 首先,敘述口吻不是那麼令人愉悅,冷漠甚至刻薄,書中沒有一個人物有名字,都是代號,milkman, maybe-boyfriend, third brother-in-law, tablet girls, Somebody McSomebody, 每個人物形象都立體鮮明,也不需要什麼名字...
圖書標籤: 布剋奬 英文原版 北愛爾蘭 女性 小說 英國 TheManBookerPrize 2018
Original as commented by the Booker Prize judges. But if I were to use a word to describe it, I would choose “mentally-pollutive(I really don’t know what is the counterpart to 精神汙染 in English)”, the feeling mitoses of brainless bacteria or the Bobunemimimmi section in Pop Team Epic have given me. This is really not a derogatory description.
評分讀瞭一部分,暫棄。Burns的語言太纏繞,加上小說中的人物、身份、地點甚至曆史背景都沒有明確的指稱。結構鬆散,情節緩滯,常常夾雜著Middle sister意識流式的迴憶以及對曆史、政治、兩性、宗教......的思考。事實上,隻要讀上兩頁你就可以很明確地感知到作者非常獨特的敘事音色和措辭技巧。這是一本需要時間和耐心消化的書,等迴看後二次評分。
評分一個充滿暴力的世界。 小說裏的人物、地點都不具名,但無不隱射當今社會,或者說,1970年代北愛的問題,現在依然存在。 “我”一直在忍受他人強加給自己的傷害(不僅僅是性騷擾,還有各種輿論壓力和誤解),導緻自我的壓抑,小說所描寫的更是一個充滿暴力的社會,然而,這些“暴力”卻並不是一開始就被認定或辨彆為“暴力”。更在通過主人公對世界的觀察、對自我的剖析中,厘清“暴力”是什麼,提問我們應該怎麼麵對它。幾乎是大長段,如果有耐心讀完,大概會有驚喜吧……
評分2020第一本書 讀不下去瞭. I have so much empathy for the main character but I feel manipulated by her, being pulled in at moments and being pushed away. sadly the writing is not engaging enough for me to play this game.
評分It can be well presented on screen by BoJack Horseman team, with both edgy and perpetual topics, absurd and visceral.
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