Winnaar van de Booker Prize 2023

Op een donkere, natte avond in Dublin doet Eilish Stack, wetenschapper en moeder van vier kinderen, haar deur open voor de nationale immigratiedienst. Twee agenten van deze nieuwgevormde Ierse geheime dienst willen haar echtgenoot spreken. Ierland valt uiteen. Het land is in de grip van een overheid die afstevent op tirannie. Als Eilish’s echtgenoot verdwijnt, ziet ze zich gevangen in de ijzingwekkende logica van een instortende maatschappij, aangevallen doo...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.

'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon

An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023'

'Surely one of the most important novels of this decade.'

-- Ron Rash, author of Serena

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internation...

Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize.

'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER

The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism

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 uni...