Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

‘Paul Lynch is peerless’ Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers

An Irish Times ‘Book to Look Forward to in 2023’

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.

A mother faces a terrible choice in this explosive literary sensation about a dystopian Ireland

About the Author: Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of the novels Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France’s Prix Libr’a Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. His books have been shortlisted for numerous international awards, including France’s Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature, Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, Prix Litterature Monde and the Walter Scott Prize. He lives in Dublin.

09 May 2024
 

Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 by Paul Lynch ISBN 9780861545896