It’s “the great Seventies hatred,” ostensibly in Belfast (where Burns was born), where “two warring religions” have endured “eight hundred years of the political problems.” Daringly, the novel’s 18-year-old narrator, known only as “middle sister,” claims that “every weekday, rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, stand-off or riots, preferred to walk home reading latest book.” Her father’s dead. With an immense rush of dazzling language, Burns submerges readers beneath the tensions of life in a police state. In her third novel, which won the 2018 Man Booker Prize, Burns ( Little Constructions, 2007, etc.) writes again about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, delivering a blistering feminist perspective on a community at war.
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