Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

by Paul Lynch

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802163017
• ISBN13: 9780802163011
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and brutish in one language

The language and style is simultaneously stunning and startling. The pages might have two paragraphs without Oxford style punctuation, but once you turn the first page it becomes the new normal in a world where walls and rules are the norm. I opened this and could not put it down, so beware, it's that good.