Prophet Song
- Auteur: Paul Lynch (Ierland)
- Soort boek: Ierse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Oneworld
- Verschijnt: 24 augustus 2023
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: £16.99 / £9.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
- Winnaar Booker Prize 2023
The Prophet Song wint de Booker Prize 2023
Op zondag 26 november 2023 is de Booker Prize 2023 toegekend aan de Ierse schrijver Paul Lynch. Volgens de jury is het een “soul-shattering and true […} will not soon forget its warnings.”
Flaptekst van de roman van Paul Lynch
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author.
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.