Prophet Song : WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - Paul Lynch

Prophet Song : WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 *�SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDA�SUNDAY TIMES�BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICEAN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023A Book of the Year for 2023 according to�the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily Telegraph, Irish Times and Waterstones'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism�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, Larry, 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. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.�Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning�novel�is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.�'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine - what if this was me?' FT�

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