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2025-01-09
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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...
圖書標籤: 布剋奬 英文原版 北愛爾蘭 女性 小說 英國 TheManBookerPrize 2018
愛爾蘭作傢的諷刺功力真是深入骨髓啊~真是the politics of rumours!
評分故意囉嗦的語言,也是一種風格。。。劇情走嚮真的很迷
評分讀到一半發現寫的是愛爾蘭......很棒的故事,但讀起來真的好艱難(。ì _ í。)
評分以女孩的遭遇摺射北愛社會中的惡意和不安 對我而言行文和單詞都非常有挑戰
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。
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