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ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2023, 12:25 AM Nov 2023

Congratulations to Booker Prize Winner Paul Lynch


Paul Lynch’s fifth novel is the winner of the Booker Prize 2023. A mother faces a terrible choice, in his exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband.

Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society – assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together. 

Prophet Song was announced as the winner of the Booker Prize 2023 on November 26 at a ceremony in London.


https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/prophet-song

Colour me intrigued. I'm definitely trying to find a way to get this one on my 2024 reading list.
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