Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Set in an Ireland sliding toward authoritarian rule, the novel follows a mother trying to keep her family safe. Its long, pressurized sentences and escalating political dread sharpen the sense of ordinary life slowly collapsing.
作品情報
The choices made to protect a family collide head-on with a society coming apart.
Through a mother trying to protect her family as society unravels, the novel lets fear, surveillance, and silence spread page by page. Its fable-like premise still feels inseparable from present political anxieties.
レビュー要約
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Many readers praise its political urgency and the force of its prose. Some are unsettled by the relentless darkness, but others see that unease as part of the book’s power.
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- 発売日
- 2023-12-05
- ページ数
- 320ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.61 x 3.18 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780802163011
- ISBN-10
- 0802163017
- 価格
- 4694 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Political
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award One of The Irish Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washington Post On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what—or who—is she willing to leave behind? The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
Paul Lynch is the author of five novels. His most recent novel, Prophet Song , won the 2023 Booker Prize and The Dayton Literary Peace Peace Prize for Fiction. He has previously won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France’s Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. He has been shortlisted for many international awards, including the UK’s Walter Scott Prize, Italy’s Strega European Prize, France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde, and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. In 2024, he was appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University and was elected to Aosdána, the Irish academy for the arts honoring distinguished artists. His novels have been translated into 35 languages.
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A difficult but necessary read
Tough going, even for an Irishman. Not just the style, but the subject matter too, is like getting caught in a flash flood, which I suspect was the author's intention. You get swept away with the surging waters, scrambling desperately (as the characters do) for some piece of flotsam to cling on to. A bleak look at a potential future, which should inspire sympathy for the less fortunate and courage to stand up for what is right. Coming away from this story with anything else would be a shame.
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Family first
Heartbreaking and devastating, this novel about the end of the world in our own backyard. It fills you with knowledge about living in war and becoming refugees when seen in West Europian scenery. It could happen to us. Tomorrow.
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Excellent novel
Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize. A timely novel.
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Highly recommended
Brilliant book. Set in the future but so much of the rise of totalitarianism can be recognised with the rise of the conservative far right in so many societies now. Beautifully written and constructed. Well worth reading.
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Etat de l'article à vérifier avant l'envoi !
Couverture déchirée sur un coin
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Excellent!
Took a while to get into, but intriguing and beautifully written
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- Booker Prize 第55回（2023年） ・Winner