EAN: 9780861546459

PROPHET SONG - PAUL LYNCH GEBUNDEN

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023    WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED
FOR THE AN PO ST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 *  SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE *
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD    A  SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER    A NEW YORK TIMES
EDITOR'S CHOICE    AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023    A Book of the Year for 2023
according to the Guardian  FT  Irish Independent  Irish Examiner  Sunday Independent  Economist
Big Issue  Daily Telegraph  Irish Times and Waterstones    'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT
TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER    The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a
terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism       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 Booker Prize-winning   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.     'A compassionate  propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to
imagine - what if this was me?' FT 

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