The Prophet by Paul Lynch [New]
Paperback
"A masterclass in empathy, offering a bird's eye view of the steady crushing of one's ability to live somewhere safely, the dismantling of ordinary life by tyranny. I hope everyone reads this." —Suzanne Harrington, The Irish Examiner
Paperback
"A masterclass in empathy, offering a bird's eye view of the steady crushing of one's ability to live somewhere safely, the dismantling of ordinary life by tyranny. I hope everyone reads this." —Suzanne Harrington, The Irish Examiner
Paperback
"A masterclass in empathy, offering a bird's eye view of the steady crushing of one's ability to live somewhere safely, the dismantling of ordinary life by tyranny. I hope everyone reads this." —Suzanne Harrington, The Irish Examiner
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.
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Literary | Dystopian | Political