01763nam a2200289Ka 450000100190000000500170001900600190003600700150005500800410007002000180011103500240012903500230015303500280017604000080020404100120021205000260022410000170025024500440026726000470031150000420035852008980040053800520129865000380135065000300138865000330141865500220145199110740660950619620250828080034.0m        d        cr cn---------231103s2023    nyu     o     000 1 eng d  a9780861545896  a(CKB)28557171200041  a(ODN)ODN0010251263  a(EXLCZ)9928557171200041  ctbs  aEnglish00aPR6112.Y534bP76 2023  aLynch, Paul.10aProphet song b: A novelc/ Paul Lynch.  aLaVergne :bAtlantic Monthly Press,c2023.  aTitle from eBook information screen..  aThe 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, Larry, 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. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.  aRequires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 0aMothersvFictionzIrelandzDublin 0a TotalitarianismvFiction 0aDisappeared personsvFiction 0aDystopian fiction