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Prophet Song

by Paul Lynch · 2023

Literary Fiction · ranked #199 in category

Winner · The Booker Prize, 2023

In a near-future Ireland rapidly sliding into authoritarianism, Eilish Stack watches as her husband is taken by the secret police, her eldest son joins the resistance, and the state dismantles civil society with bureaucratic precision. Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel compresses an apocalypse into a family story, its long, breathless sentences enacting the panic of a world coming apart.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2023 · 2020s
Author
Paul Lynch
Standing
Essential Read

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