WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washington PostOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what—or who—is she willing to leave behind?The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
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Prophet Song
By Paul Lynch
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washington PostOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what—or who—is she willing to leave behind?The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
Popular Reviews(2)
Reviewed by GabrieleThat’s really something! Rarely have I read such a boring and badly written book.
Reviewed by Lukasi'm intrigued by paul lynch's beautiful prose and the dense, uncanny, slightly dissociative and dreamy (clearly the nightmare kind of dream) atmosphere he creates. this book haunted me in my dreams.