Winner of the 2023 Booker PrizeOn 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 & Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband & 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 & propulsive, ‘Prophet Song’ is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war & a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.°°°Paul Lynch is an Irish novelist: He has written five novels, including PROPHET SONG, winner of the Booker Prize 2023. Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University. Member of @AosdánaTwitter: @paullynchwriter

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

Lynch, Paul

Rock the Boat

Point Blank

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG ... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER
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The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism
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 when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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.
'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?' FT

2023-11-28