Prophet song : a novel

ISBN: 9780802163011
Physical Description: 309 pages ; 22 cm regular print print
Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023.
Copyright: &copy;2023
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 5 / 5.0

Lynch, Paul 1977- (author.).

Summary: 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 Ireland's 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, Prophet Song is 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.