Chapters: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch October 2024
October 8th 7:15 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
- Prophet Song byISBN: 9780802163011Publication Date: 2023-12-05WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 * INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize "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.
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About the Author
Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of five novels — Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Strega European Award and the An Post Irish Novel of the Year.
He has previously won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France’s Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. He has been shortlisted for many international awards, including the UK’s Walter Scott Prize, and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde, and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature.
In 2024, he was appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University and was elected to Aosdána, which honors artists who have made outstanding contributions to the creative arts in Ireland. He lives in Dublin.
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Articles and Reviews
- Life Descends Into Chaos in This Year’s Booker Prize Winner “Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.New York Times
By Benjamin Markovits
Published Dec. 1, 2023
Updated Dec. 5, 2023 - In Booker-winning 'Prophet Song,' the world ends slowly and then all at onceNPR
December 11, 2023
By Kristen Martin