Prophet song : a novel / Paul Lynch.

By:

Lynch, Paul, 1977-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover editionDescription: 309 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780802163011 (hardcover)
0802163017

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

FIC 23

Awards:

Booker Prize, 2023

Summary: 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? Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Fiction	Fiction	FIC Lynch (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	Booker Prize Winner 2023	10/04/2024	24907

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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? Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

Booker Prize, 2023

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