Prophet Song
- Authors
- Paul Lynch
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Tags
- dystopia;speculative fiction;dystopian fiction;motherhood;mother;family;ireland;irish;dublin;here are the young men;jon mcgregor;station eleven;emily st john mandel;the new wilderness;diane cook;the magician;colm toibin;the heart's invisible furies;the echo chamber;john boyne;rob doyle;night boat to tangier;that old country music;from a low and quiet sea;donal ryan;shuggie bain;douglas stuart;kevin barry;grace;the black snow;red sky in the morning;beyond the sea;irish fiction;kerry group irish novel of the year award
- Date
- 2023-07-26T16:14:47Z
- Size
- 1.07 MB
- Lang
- en
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 Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society. 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.