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100			_aPaul Lynch _9252457
245			_aProphet Song
260			_aLondon _bOneworld Publications _c2023
300			_a310p _bPB _c23.5x15cm
365			_aBLCR-000079 _b₹479.00 _c₹ _d₹599.00 _e20% _f11-01-2024
520			_aWinner 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.
650			_aEnglish Fiction _9148033
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