Anna Burns
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the small town of Tiptoe Floorboard, the Doe clan, a close-knit family of criminals and victims, has the run of the place. Yet there are signs that patriarch John Doe's reign may be coming to an end. When Jetty Doe breaks into a gun store and makes off with a Kalashnikov, the stage is set for a violent confrontation. But while Jetty is making her way across town in a taxi, an elusive, chatty narrator takes us on a wild journey, zooming in and...
3) Milkman
Author
Series
Publisher
Editions Gallimard
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Dans cette ville sans nom, mieux vaut ne pas se faire remarquer. La jeune narratrice met tout en œuvre pour empêcher sa mère de découvrir son ' peut-être-petit-ami ', et pour cacher à tous qu'elle a croisé le chemin du laitier – un homme violent qui la poursuit de ses avances. Mais quand son beau-frère comprend qu'elle garde un secret, et que la rumeur se met à enfler, la jeune fille devient ' intéressante '. Or devenir intéressant...
4) Mostly Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
Mostly HeroFemme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme's Great Aunt - the old lady who lives alone in a skyscraper - is his own disreputable grandmother. Master villain Great Aunt needs to know whether or not her favourite niece, Femme, is in love with her arch-enemy, Hero. Meantime, Freddie, Femme's lovelorn cousin, must seek out and destroy Great Aunt otherwise his sweet-natured fiancée, Monique...