Prophet Song: A novel

Synopsis

Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, Prophet Song is a gripping novel that imagines Ireland's slow descent into authoritarian rule through the eyes of one ordinary family. When two officers from a newly formed secret police arrive at Eilish Stack's door looking for her husband, a trade unionist, the foundations of her life begin to crumble. As civil liberties disappear and fear takes hold, Eilish is forced to make impossible choices in order to protect her children.

Both an intimate family story and a chilling political novel, Prophet Song explores how democracies erode, how ordinary people adapt to extraordinary circumstances, and what remains when home is no longer safe. Urgent, unsettling, and profoundly humane, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel is one of the defining works of contemporary fiction.

About the Author

Paul Lynch is an Irish novelist whose work has received international acclaim for its lyrical prose and emotional depth. He is the author of five novels, including Grace, which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Prophet Song won the 2023 Booker Prize and has been widely praised as one of the most important novels of recent years.

Publisher
Grove Press

Publication Date
December 5, 2023

Format
Paperback

Pages
320

Subjects
Literary Fiction · Irish Literature · Dystopian Fiction · Political Fiction

ISBN
9780802163523