01563nam a22002057a 4500 20260123161434.0 240117b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780861546862 AL English 23 823.92 LYNP Paul Lynch 252457 Prophet Song London Oneworld Publications 2023 310p PB 23.5x15cm BLCR-000079 ₹479.00 ₹ ₹599.00 20% 11-01-2024 Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize. A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author 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 Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society. 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. English Fiction 148033 ddc BK 229643 229643 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN AL AL 2024-01-11 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt Ltd 479.00 1 823.92 LYNP 077040 2024-04-19 00:00:00 2024-04-11 599.00 2024-01-11 BK