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Narrator
Gerry O'Brien
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Length
8 hours 32 minutes
Language
English
Winner of the Booker Prize 2023
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 when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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.
Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of the novels Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and France’s Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. His books have been shortlisted for numerous international awards, including the Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde and the Walter Scott Prize. He lives in Dublin. Prophet Song was the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize.
Gerry O'Brien is an Irish actor who has performed in theatre, radio and television over four decades. His film credits include King Arthur and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Gerry is also a sought-after audiobook narrator, having been nominated for an Audie for his work on the Jack Taylor series of detective novels by Irish writer Ken Bruin, and winning silver in the UK audiobook awards for Ballykissangel.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Gerry O'Brien
ISBN:
9781038662170
Length:
8 hours 32 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Publication date:
December 7, 2023
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#4,360 Overall
Genre rank:
#573 in Fiction - Literary
Reviews
'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.' 'Monumental ... You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years.' 'Prophet Song is a literary manifesto for empathy for those in need and a brilliant, haunting novel that should be placed into the hands of policymakers everywhere.' Expand reviewsDandelion Bookshop is proud to partner with Libro.fm to give you a great audiobook experience.
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