2023 Booker Longlist: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Our final book on the longlist is Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. Lynch is an internationally acclaimed Irish novelist who has published five novels, winning several awards in the process. Prophet Song is his fifth novel.
Synopsis from Booker Prize website: 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.
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.
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