Prophet Song
“A horror story, with the new political order serving as the monster now inside the house.”
Los Angeles Times
An AudioFile Editors’ Pick of the Month's Favorite Listens
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
Winner of the Booker Prize
A Globe and Mail (Toronto) Best Books of the Year
Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
A London Guardian Pick of Fall Books
Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four, Eilish Stack, answers her front door to find on her step two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police. 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?
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