Prophet Song

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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 doorstep. Two officers from Irelands newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers Union of Ireland. 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. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational,ProphetSongis a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past.

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'A monumental novel, prose so flawless and flowing that reading it is akin to being taken up in a wave. You emerge dazed. You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years.'

Author Bio

Paul Lynch is the prize-winning author of the novels,Beyond the Sea,Grace,The Black SnowandRed Sky in Morning. His third novelGracewon the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the 2020 Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors Literary Award. His second novelThe Black Snowwon Frances bookseller prize, Prix Libr Nous for Best Foreign Novel. He has been shortlisted for many international prizes, including Frances Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature, Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger (Best Foreign Book Prize), Prix Littrature Monde and the Walter Scott Prize. He was born in Limerick in 1977, grew up in Donegal and lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.