Lynch, Paul. Prophet Song - WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023. Oneworld Publications, 2024.

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Paul Lynch

Prophet Song

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

Oneworld Publications
2024

Taschenbuch
309 Seiten
ISBN 9780861545896

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

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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.