TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynch,Paul
TI  - Prophet song
SN  - 9780861546459
AV  - PR6112.Y534 P76 2023
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Oneworld
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Labor union members
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Dublin (Ireland)
N1  - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
N2  - "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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