Prophet Song
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
By Paul Lynch
Harry Hartog's review
THIS BLEW MY FREAKIN’ SOCKS OFF. Gosh, where to start. The suspense? Creeping up beside you while a knot in your stomach forms. The narrator? A woman, written by a man, who is flawed, compassionate & wholly human. Or the writing itself which is SUPERB. Obviously it won the Booker for a reason, but not since Galgut’s ‘The Promise’ has a book been so deserving. I loved it and it is a key read for the world as it stands today. Recommend to people who like heavy literature, not A Little Life heavy, but Irish-the-world-is-sick-it-can’t-happen-here heavy. - Lauren, Subscriptions
Description
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780861546862
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 320
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Oneworld Publications
- Imprint:
- Oneworld Publications