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Prophet Song is a 2023 dystopian novel [2] by Irish author Paul Lynch, published by Oneworld. The novel depicts the struggles of the Stack family, in particular Eilish Stack, a mother of four who is trying to save her family as the Republic of Ireland slips into totalitarianism.
Aug 24, 2023 · 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.
Dec 2, 2023 · The 2023 Booker winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, is a vastly admirable book, but there is something deeply odd about it: it is a novel about a dystopian coup that takes down Ireland’s...
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 compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?' FT.
- Paul Lynch
Sep 4, 2024 · Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is a gripping work of contemporary dystopian fiction set in a near-future Ireland that has spiraled into chaos. The novel centers on Eilish Stack, an ordinary woman who faces the collapse of her family and society when an authoritarian regime seizes control of the country.
Dec 5, 2023 · The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
Prophet Song, the judges have chosen perhaps the most timely and urgent book on the shortlist... it’s also the very intimate, elemental story of one woman’s love for her family, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the immediate world around her in the face of rising chaos.'
- Paul Lynch
Dec 1, 2023 · “Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis. Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, “The Sidekick,” is about the complicated friendship between a...
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is a piece of contemporary dystopian fiction. Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize (2023), Prophet Song centers on a family’s fight for survival after Ireland descends into totalitarian control and a civil war.
Nov 26, 2023 · Prophet Song is an exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a country – and an ordinary family – on the brink of catastrophe. 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.
