Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
On a dark,wet evening in Dublin,scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband,a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish,Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.
How far will she go to save her family And what - or who - is she willing to leave behind
Exhilarating,terrifying and propulsive,Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality,offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.
Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsISBN: 9780861546459Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 28 mm
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'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable - Saramago,Orwell,McCarthy - but this novel will stand entirely on its own.'- Colum McCann,author of Apeirogon
'Surely one of the most important novels of this decade.'- Ron Rash,author of Serena
'Monumental... you remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years.'- Samantha Harvey,author of The Western Wind
'The work of a master novelist, Prophet Song is a stunning,midnight vision whose themes are at once ancient and all too timely: fear,complicity,resistance,and what becomes of us when hell rises to our homeland.'- Rob Doyle,author of Threshold
'It was gripping and chilling,and terribly prescient - a novel with a darkly important message about this particular moment in time.'- Sara Baume,author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither
'Part cautionary-tale; part dystopian-nightmare; part fever dream. Whichever way you skin it,there is no denying the gathering power of Paul Lynch's writing. This is at once fearless and affecting prose with a ticking clock inevitability and a clanging bell pay-off. Both urgent jolt and slow furnace,Prophet Song takes you to the edge of the chasm and insists that you look down. A masterclass in terror and dread.'- Alan McMonagle,author of Ithaca
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