Description
Prophet Song (Man Booker prize 2023)
Paperback
by Lynch Paul
- Publisher : FABER ET FABER (2023), 310 pages
- Language : English
- Paperback :
- ISBN-10 : 861546865
- ISBN-13 : 9780861546862
- Weight : 0.27
- Dimensions : 23.5×2.5×15.5 cm
Prophet Song (Man Booker prize 2023) by Lynch Paul (2023)
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Average Rating:
4.1 rating based on 72,987 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0861546865
ISBN-13: 9780861546862
Goodreads: 175740709
Author(s):
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: //
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
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.
4.1 rating based on 72,987 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0861546865
ISBN-13: 9780861546862
Goodreads: 175740709
Author(s):
Published: //
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
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.
