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Prophet Song /
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
Autor: Paul Lynch
English
2023 - Oneworld Publications
Hardcover
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Besprechung
'Lynch pulls off feats of language that are stunning to witness... This is a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave.' Esi Edugyan, Chair of Judges, The Booker Prize 2023
Kurztext / Annotation
A mother faces a terrible choice in this explosive literary sensation about a dystopian Ireland
Langtext
* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *
'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER
The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism
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.
'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine - what if this was me?' FT
AutorIn
Paul Lynch is the author of the novels Red Sky in Morning, The Black Snow, Grace and Beyond the Sea. Grace won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018 and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2018. The Black Snow won France's Prix Libr'à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and was a finalist for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. His website is www.paullynchwriter.com
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Buchdetails
Titel: | Prophet Song |
Untertitel: | WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 |
Autor: | Paul Lynch |
Verlag: | Oneworld Publications |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
Sprache: | English |
320 Seiten | |
234 mm x 153 mm | |
ISBN-13: | 978-0-86154-645-9 |