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Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch
Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
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On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.

How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

2023, Booker Prize, Winner

2023, An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Short-listed

2025, Dublin Literary Award, Long-listed

©2023 Paul Lynch (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing Dystopian Genre Fiction Political Science Fiction
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Reviews

'The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' (Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon)

'Monumental ... You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years.' (Samantha Harvey, author of The Western Wind)
'Prophet Song is a literary manifesto for empathy for those in need and a brilliant, haunting novel that should be placed into the hands of policymakers everywhere.' (The Guardian)
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Enthralling details that draw you in to the very core of the emotions of a family story.

The intensity

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Un récit puissant, très bien interprété, qui nous rappelle que ce n'est que le hasard du monde qui fait que ce sont d'autres qui fuient leur pays en guerre dans des bateaux clandestins. Et qui nous dit que ça pourrait aussi être nous, si nous n'y prenons pas garde!
Très émouvant, le livre nous confronte à la guerre à hauteur de femme et à des questions morales qu'on espère ne jamais avoir à se poser.

Vous n'en sortirez pas indemne!

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Excellent writing. No escape of the civil war. Very hard to understand the accent of the person reading…but I am not a native to English

A difficult book to read

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