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Burns captures how political violence enters language, gender relations, and daily choices.
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Milkman
Anna Burns2018 selection · Literary fiction
Milkman
During the Troubles, an eighteen-year-old reader attracts the unwanted attention of a powerful paramilitary known as Milkman. Gossip and communal surveillance make her private life dangerous.
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