Hearsay abounds in the vacuum left by diminished faith in institutions.
And her characters’ struggles are timely. Like last year’s winner, George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, it’s an unconventional historical novel, one that coruscates between past and present, upending the genre itself.Īlthough Burns makes it possible to deduce that Milkman is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, she scrubs her plot of grounding details, inviting the reader to draw connections between her past and our present.
It doesn’t span generations or continents it’s not a staid reflection on the nuclear family. Anna Burns’s Milkman - the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize - doesn’t meet the criteria we’ve come to expect from award-winning books.
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