Prophet song / Paul Lynch.
Publication details: Oxford, UK : Oneworld Publications, 2023.Description: 309 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780861546862
- 0861546865
- 823.914 23/eng/20230405
- Winner 2023 Booker Prize.
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LYN | On reserve | 072457 | 1 |
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society - assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past.
Winner 2023 Booker Prize.