Milkman
内容简介
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…
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作者简介
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.
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读书文摘
但我当时并不知道这种本能反应和抵触情绪是值得重视的，不知道自己可以不喜欢也不必忍受任何一个人靠近我。
如果一个人超乎寻常的活泼开朗和阳光灿烂在他人眼里难以容忍，那个人甚至会落到必须失去他或她的肉体生命的地步。至于那些生活在黑暗里、长期以来已经适应了黑暗所带来的安全感的人，对他们而言，这也不是轻而易举的。这就是为什么在压倒性的恐惧和悲伤的环境中，我们不会遇见许多阳光般灿烂的人。
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