[Good book review] The milkman and the oppressive times

Burns’s life has all the details to make her a legend: She wrote the book The Milkman when her whole body was in pain from a botched surgery, and after completing it until now she has been unable to continue writing.

There seems to be a terrible gap between two moments: when the manuscript of the book The Milkman was rejected by a series of publishers, and when the entire jury unanimously chose to award it the Man Booker Prize.

The impressive opening sentence of The Milkman almost captures the entire menacing atmosphere of the work: `The day Someone McSomeone put a gun to my chest, called me a whore and threatened to shoot me was also the day the milkman

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[Good book review] Thousand crane wings: The darkness of fate, the depth of sin

Because she lived in such a strange time, a worrying incident that happened to her was lightly dismissed: She was stalked by a middle-aged man, whom she called the milkman.

Because she lived in such a strange time, a worrying incident that happened to her was lightly dismissed: She was stalked by a middle-aged man, whom she called the milkman.

Her `fourth sister` character lives in a politically fragmented and conflicted community, where factions clearly divide `us and them`, where every indiscretion that violates the scope is also present.

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[Good book review] Between the two of us: A generation filled with anxiety

Burns chose a very unique approach when creating his characters: absolutely no names.

Written in a language that blends everyday speech with elite literature and ingenious wordplay, the narrative is filled with thoughts and side stories, the book The Milkman is