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Dec 5, 2023 · WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • NATIONAL BESTSELLER. "A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washington Post. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step.
Nov 26, 2023 · Information. Everything you need to know about Prophet Song, winner of the Booker Prize 2023. As Paul Lynch becomes the fifth Irish writer to win the Booker Prize, here’s the lowdown on his winning novel, Prophet Song. Published November 26, 2023. Why did Prophet Song win the Booker Prize? Esi Edugyan, Chair of the judges, said:
Sep 3, 2023 · Prophet Song is a literary manifesto for empathy for those in need and a brilliant, haunting novel that should be placed into the hands of policymakers everywhere. Prophet Song by Paul...
Jan 1, 2024 · "Prophet Song" is a beautifully written, slow descent into the maelstrom. The authoritarian National Alliance Party has been voted into power two years before the novel opens and is now...
Aug 24, 2023 · Prophet Song. Written by Paul Lynch. Paul Lynch’s fifth novel is the winner of the Booker Prize 2023. A mother faces a terrible choice, in his exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink.
Sep 21, 2023 · Paul Lynch. © Basso Cannarsa. What the Booker Prize 2023 judges said. ‘ Prophet Song follows one woman’s attempts to save her family in a dystopic Ireland sliding further and further into authoritarian rule. It is a shocking, at times tender novel that is not soon forgotten. Propulsive and unsparing, it flinches away from nothing.
Nov 26, 2023 · “Prophet Song” is set in a near future and centers on Eilish Stack, a scientist and mother of four, whose trade unionist husband is taken by the security forces, an early sign of growing...
