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by Paul Lynch

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Readers saw Paul Lynch’s Booker-winning novel as a visceral, timely study of authoritarian drift, transposing conflict to a familiar Western setting through a mother’s perspective. Many praised the beautiful, haunting prose and political sharpness, calling it urgent and devastating. The style—third-person present, long unbroken blocks, no dialogue marks—was polarizing: some tore through it, others found it jumbled, exhausting, or a slog. Even critics acknowledged its ambition and relevance.

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award

One of The Irish Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

"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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  • Title Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
  • Author Paul Lynch
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Publication date 2023-12-05
  • ISBN 9780802163011 / 0802163017
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.5 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 3.81 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Dublin (Ireland), Families
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023040894
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.92

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  • Booklist, 11/01/2023, Page 23
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2023, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/23/2023, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/03/2023, Page 0

About the author

Paul Lynch is the author of five novels. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize and The Dayton Literary Peace Peace Prize for Fiction. He has previously won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France's Prix Libr' Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. He has been shortlisted for many international awards, including the UK's Walter Scott Prize, Italy's Strega European Prize, France's Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger, Prix Littrature-Monde, and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. In 2024, he was appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University and was elected to Aosdna, the Irish academy for the arts honoring distinguished artists. His novels have been translated into 35 languages.

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