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, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. 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.
Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past.
Product details
Publisher : Oneworld; 1st edition (28 November 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0861546458
ISBN-13 : 978-0861546459
Dimensions : 15.3 x 2.8 x 23.4 cm
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897 in Political Fiction (Books)
1,440 in Dystopian Fiction
2,232 in British & Irish Literature
Customer Reviews: 4.3
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