01830nam a2200313Ka 4500 991107406609506196 20250828080034.0 m d cr cn--------- 231103s2023 nyu o 000 1 eng d 9780861545896 (CKB)28557171200041 (ODN)ODN0010251263 (EXLCZ)9928557171200041 tbs English PR6112.Y534 P76 2023 Lynch, Paul. 25815 Prophet song : A novel / Paul Lynch. LaVergne : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. Title from eBook information screen.. 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, 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. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. Mothers Fiction Ireland Dublin Totalitarianism Fiction Disappeared persons Fiction Dystopian fiction 25624 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-08-28 0 P-EN LYN B05650 2025-08-28 1 2025-08-28 1 4889 4889