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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch Gerry O'Brien

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English
Bolinda Audio Books
28 January 2024
Winner of the Booker Prize 2023

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.
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Imprint:   Bolinda Audio Books
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:   9781038662927
ISBN 10:   1038662923
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   CD-Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of the novels Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and France’s Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. His books have been shortlisted for numerous international awards, including the Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde and the Walter Scott Prize. He lives in Dublin. Prophet Song was the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize. Gerry O'Brien is an Irish actor who has performed in theatre, radio and television over four decades. His film credits include King Arthur and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Gerry is also a sought-after audiobook narrator, having been nominated for an Audie for his work on the Jack Taylor series of detective novels by Irish writer Ken Bruin, and winning silver in the UK audiobook awards for Ballykissangel.

Reviews for Prophet Song

'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years ... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' -- Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon 'Monumental ... You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years.' -- Samantha Harvey, author of The Western Wind 'Prophet Song is a literary manifesto for empathy for those in need and a brilliant, haunting novel that should be placed into the hands of policymakers everywhere.' -- The Guardian


  • Short-listed for An Post Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year 2023
  • Short-listed for An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2023
  • Winner of Booker Prize 2023

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