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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

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#169 of 8,085 books · #38 in Science Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (2023). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Prophet Song won the Booker Prize 2023 and won the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. 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, Larry, 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. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe. Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch's novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.

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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
ISBN-13
9780861545902
Topics
TotalitarianismFamily under crisisPolitical dystopiaResilience and survivalLoss and grief

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