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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award
One of The Irish Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
"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. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what--or who--is she willing to leave behind?
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Publish Date | December 05, 2023 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780802163011 |
| Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.4 X 1.5 inches | 0.8 pounds |
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award
New York Times Editors' Choice
An NPR, Guardian, Globe & Mail, and Tertulia Best Book of the Year Selection
An Amazon Top 10 Book of December
A Biggest Book of Fall from The Guardian
"A prophetic masterpiece." - Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Many, many lines and passages of great beauty and power . . . Lynch is extraordinarily good at the bureaucratic intricacies of the descent into chaos.'" -- New York Times
"[A] beautifully written, ingenious, holy terror of a novel." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave . . . Readers will find it soul-shattering and true, and will not soon forget its warnings."-- Esi Edugyan, Chair of the Booker Prize 2023 Judges
"Gripping . . . As Eilish's circumstances deteriorate, Lynch's dense, lyrical prose barrels down on you relentlessly. As you read, you feel precious time slipping away, the inexorable future rushing toward you. He eschews quotation marks and paragraph breaks, and the result is a chaotic, disorienting whirlwind that amplifies the furious action of the narrative and plants you firmly in Eilish's weary, fractured mind." -- Boston Globe
"Stunning in every sense of the word . . . In masterfully controlled and powerful prose, [Lynch] yanks the reader headlong into the experience of living in a country that is taken over by an authoritarian government -- slowly, slowly, and then suddenly and completely . . . Prophet Song is a brilliant, disturbing reality check. Lynch insists that we understand 'the end of the world is always a local event.'" -- Tampa Bay Times
"Prophet Song is . . . a horror story, with the new political order serving as the monster now inside the house . . . This is not a book that presents political oppression as an intellectual problem to be anticipated or solved. It aims for the limbic system, and it does not miss." -- Los Angeles Times
"Unsettling." -- The New Yorker
"A story mirroring today's headlines." -- PBS NewsHour
"A beautifully written, slow descent into the maelstrom . . . This horrifying yet lovely novel would be a masterpiece even in a time of halcyon equality and justice for all. But that time is not this time." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR
"Harrowing . . . The lesson for readers is not necessarily to wake up to signs of totalitarianism knocking at our doors, but to empathize with those for whom it has already called." -- NPR
"If there was ever a crucial book for our current times, it's Paul Lynch's Prophet Song . . . A brilliant, haunting novel." -- Guardian (UK)
"An exceptionally gifted writer, Lynch brings a compelling lyricism to [Eilish's] fears and despair while he marshals the details marking the collapse of democracy and the norms of daily life. His tonal control, psychological acuity, empathy, and bleakness recall Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006) . . . Captivating, frightening, and a singular achievement. " -- Kirkus Reviews, Sta
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