Prophet song /
Lynch, Paul, 1977-
Prophet song / Paul Lynch. - 309 pages ; 24 cm
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.
"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 Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past."--
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Families--Fiction.
Labor union members--Fiction.
Dictatorship--Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
PR6112.Y534 / P76 2023
823.92
Prophet song / Paul Lynch. - 309 pages ; 24 cm
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.
"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 Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past."--
9780861546459 0861546458 9780861546862 0861546865
GBC3D5624 bnb
021143705 Uk
Families--Fiction.
Labor union members--Fiction.
Dictatorship--Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
PR6112.Y534 / P76 2023
823.92