Prophet Song
Paul LynchOn 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.
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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 @Aosdána
Twitter: @paullynchwriter