Prophet Song

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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, Larry, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go …

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Langue : English

Publié 8 août 2023 par Oneworld Publications.

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978-0-86154-645-9
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a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Stressful read for all the right reasons

Thanks to the way it was written and the story combined, this book grabs you by the throat and infects you with the main character's stress that oozes out of the pages. Couldn't read this in one go, and the final 50 pages were a constant battle between reading on for the story and putting it aside because it was just so harrowing. One of those books that will ruin your day, if not your week, because it's just so good and awful at the same time.

a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Will make you think and stay with you (stick with it if the prose and syntax feels awkward at first -- it's worth it)

First, I love the use of language, punctuation, syntax, in this book. It took time to acclimate, but once one does it becomes a character itself. I cannot imagine this story written in a more conventional way. At least not a story as powerful.

Second, I had no idea when I finished how much I would be thinking about it a month later. Do not get me wrong, I marinated on this book for a while after finishing (and while reading, of course), but recent events have made this story much more... pointed.

This was a difficult read and I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it (apart from the language, which is beautiful at times, and cutting at others, and so so bleak). Do not go into Prophet Song expecting a rollicking read. It hurts, it frightens, it warns. This is all my opinion, of course, and I haven't …

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