![]() ![]() And it is enormously rewarding if you persist with it. “I spend my time reading articles in the Journal of Philosophy so by my standards this is not too hard. It is definitely worth it because the view is terrific when you get to the top,” he said. ![]() Written with few paragraph breaks, eschewing character names for descriptions, Appiah admitted that Milkman could be seen as “challenging, but in the way a walk up Snowdon is challenging. It is a story of brutality, sexual encroachment and resistance threaded with mordant humour.” “Anna Burns’s utterly distinctive voice challenges conventional thinking and form in surprising and immersive prose. “None of us has ever read anything like this before,” said Appiah, announcing the win at a dinner at the Guildhall in London. It is “incredibly original”, according to the Booker’s chair of judges, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. The experimental novel, Burns’s third, is narrated by an unnamed 18-year-old girl, known as “middle sister”, who is being pursued by a much older paramilitary figure, the milkman. ![]()
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