Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize

"A prophetic masterpiece." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post

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?

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

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336 pages

Average rating: 7.45

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Anonymous
Jan 07, 2025
10/10 stars
Very intense read, did this one as an audiobook and I could see myself sitting down with it again because the writing is that good. There’s a lot of build-up but it’s almost similar to bee sting where the mundanity leads into more and more messed up things and makes it stand out more towards the end.
Erick
Dec 22, 2024
10/10 stars
This book is upsetting.
Irisheve
Oct 27, 2024
10/10 stars
Past present future a definite sign of our times. Book was dark amazing read poetic prophecy.
Pete297
Sep 21, 2024
8/10 stars
dark and haunting, wouldn't read it again. A good deal to depressing for my liking but brilliant and poetic at the same time. A worthy winner in my opinion
Bigmedicine
May 03, 2024
Excellent

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