Prophet Song - Booker Prize Shortlist 2023

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023. 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 when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Lynch, Lynch Paul
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780861546862
• ISBN: 978-0-86154-686-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Disaster, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fiction: narrative themes, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Fiction and Related items, FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages