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  1. 3 days ago · Irish author Paul Lynch took to the LitFest stage fresh off his 2023 Booker Prize win, to discuss his latest novel "Prophet Song" and what it's like to write...

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  2. oneworld-publications.com › work › prophet-songProphet Song | Oneworld

    May 9, 2024 · 'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023' A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author 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 ...

  3. May 20, 2024 · I found the novel flawed, to say the least. But that is where the extraordinary writing of Paul Lynch becomes the buoy that lifts the story that would have sunk in less capable hands. He succeeds in making the novel, because of these flaws, an exploration of what it means to be human. More specifically, what it means to be a wife, a mother, and ...

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  5. May 8, 2024 · We’ve dabbled with Paul Lynch before (see our reviews of The Black Snow and Beyond the Sea) so we had an inkling of what to expect when we picked up Prophet Song (in that, like, say, David Peace, Paul Lynch has a particular way of writing – you can feel the words of his sentences grappling with making sure that the thing said is absolutely the thing that needs to be said), and – as a ...

  6. May 12, 2024 · Paul Lynch is the author of five novels. Born in 1977, he grew up in Malin Head, the most northerly point on the Irish coast. His latest novel, Prophet Song, depicts a nightmarish vision of Ireland sliding into an authoritarian regime. Written in long, poetic sentences – without speech marks and few paragraph breaks – the novel pulls the ...

  7. May 15, 2024 · Listen. Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for his dystopian novel 'Prophet Song', set in near future Ireland. (Paul Lynch c Richard Gilligan) How far would you go to save your family? That's ...

  8. 6 days ago · Paul Lynch. Paul Lynch is the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow, Red Sky in Morning and the 2023 Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song. His third novel, Grace, won the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the 2020 Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors’ Literary Award and his ...

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