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But chairman of the Booker judges, Kwame Anthony Appiah, judged thus: вЂњвЂ¦вЂ™its focus on men abusing power and what happens when rumors spiral out of control gives it wide resonance.вЂќДЄs my evidence of the novel and its translation being relevant to us are the phrases вЂњmen abusing powerвЂќ and вЂњrumors spiral out of controlвЂќ. Thus very unfortunately with human nature being so diverse, explosive and prone to violence, we are never safe and could easily experience cold fear like the 18-year old unnamed Irish girl in the novel вЂMilkmanвЂ™.ДЄ review I read said that вЂMilkmanвЂ™ appeared to be up against better books. Terror occurs in isolated but far too many situations such as raping and setting fire to a poor innocent servant girl even verbally sexually harassing women parliamentarians.

But it could be led and misdirected by a politician or military man going totally power hungry and resisting, nay over-riding the will and vote of the people. Our own army is truly helpful and merciful now, rendering such polite help to millions being vaccinated. Some fear we are on the way to becoming a colony of China with its ruthless government practices. Any day a mob of protestors вЂ“ even teachers and principals of schools вЂ“ could go berserk. We had a violent taste of it on Easter Sunday 2019. вЂњThis darkly comic novel, set in the seventies, takes place in a вЂhair trigger societyвЂ™ of bomb scares, hijackings, protracted conflict.вЂќ ArenвЂ™t we in Sri Lanka so very familiar with these, and worse? During peace that followed the end of the civil war in 2009, we suffered further through political machination of white van abductions, killings, torturing, FEAR.

Rather are we in the throes and thrall of Nature striking back with the raging Covid 9 pandemic and weather somewhat gone awry even in our sunny island.Д«ut terrorism is always present. The reader of this column may wonder why I titled my piece вЂњRelevanceвЂ¦.вЂќ since Sri Lanka is no longer under British colonialism, nor suffering violence at the hand of terrorists вЂ“ both LTTE and JVP. Dr Lakshmi de Silva commented that the translator to Sinhala вЂ“ Swarnakanti вЂ“ captured most of it. It received strongly positive reviews, with critics mostly praising the bookвЂ™s narration, atmosphere, humor, and its complex portrayal of Northern Irish socio-politics.

вЂMilkmanвЂ™ not at all an ordinary supplier of milk is a mysterious figure that somewhat stalks an 18-year old Irish girl amid troubled times.

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Certainly the one which peels back the skin of insidious sectarianism with shocking franknessвЂ¦вЂќ As the Irish Independent notes: вЂњItвЂ™s an astute, exquisite account of Northern IrelandвЂ™s social landscape but Milkman is much more than that too вЂ¦ a potent and urgent book, with more than a hint of barely contained fury.вЂќ To quote another review: вЂњPossibly the best novel from or about Northern Ireland in a decade. It also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction as well as the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. I wrote a comment on the book вЂMilkmanвЂ™ and on Burns in this column in 2018 soon after she won the Booker Prize for the best work of fiction of the previous year. Is it any wonder that Swarnakanti won a literary award for her earlier translation of the massive вЂ Anna KareninaвЂ™? Most difficult it is, I suppose, to translate humour, particularly subtle and bitter humour as Burns introduces in her book. SwarnakanatiвЂ™s translation, titled (in Sinhala of course) вЂMilkman NavakathawaвЂ™, highly commended by Dr Lakshmi de Silva, is more recent and it must be said that Swarnakanti is to be praised unstintingly for translating a complex book on a complex period of time with complexities of human psychology conveyed accurately. The quote was given me by Dr Lakshmi de Silva when I telephoned her to request her permission to mention her review of Swarnakanti RajapakseвЂ™s translation of Anna BurnsвЂ™ searingly written historical psychological novel on the troubles of Northern Ireland, published in May 2018. Nowadays are dragon riddled / The nightmare rides upon sleep ДЄ drunken soldier can leave the mother/ Murdered at her door