Milkman by Anna Burns

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1. What can be consequences from reading while walking?
2. Who is this milkman? What does he want?
3. How does the author evoke a strange ecosystem, “this psycho-political atmosphere, with its rules of allegiance, of tribal identification”?
4. What to make of their total distrust of state forces?
5. How is the oppressiveness of tribalism, of religion, of patriarchy, of living with widespread distrust and permanent fear shown?
6. It’s said to be set in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. How is one supposed to know that?

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