Prophet Song
A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award
One of The Irish Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
"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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this Booker Prize–winning dystopian drama, a mother faces impossible choices in an increasingly totalitarian society. When the secret police come for her union-leader husband, Eilish Stack begins to realize that the world she has known is falling apart. As a scientist and mother of four, Eilish has a hard time understanding how the democratic nation of Ireland could so quickly devolve into a police state, but as others in her orbit start to disappear and the government clamps down, she learns to adapt in order to save what remains of her family. Author Paul Lynch makes the horrific feel chillingly believable, using darkly poetic language to describe a divided Dublin where civil liberties are being shredded every day. Stunning, realistic, and heartrending, Prophet Song is a thrilling and important read about the rise of contemporary fascism.
