{"product_id":"prophet-song-winner-the-book-prize-pb","title":"Prophet Song: Winner the Book prize (PB)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimely and unforgettable. It's a remarkable accomplishment for a novelist to capture the social and political anxieties of our moment so compellingly.' Booker Prize judges\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/prize-years\/2023\" title=\"Booker Prize 2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit thebookerprizes.com 2023\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/saturday\/audio\/2018912120\/paul-lynch-on-his-booker-shortlisted-novel-prophet-song\" title=\"RNZ interview Oct 23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit rnz.co.nz interview with Paul Lynch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eA fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThings are falling apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIreland 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eExhilarating, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeculative fiction, Narrative theme: Displacement - exile - migration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Lynch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e320 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 234mm W: 153mm Spine: 23mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43763626180758,"sku":"9780861545896","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket---2024-06-12T141129-037.jpg?v=1718255723","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/prophet-song-winner-the-book-prize-pb","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}