With scientist and mother of four Eilish as the novel’s protagonist, Lynch memorably explores the sensations of dread and fear, of not knowing where your relatives are as you try to make sense of the ...

Paul Lynch‘s Booker Prize-winning novel “Prophet Song” portrays life in a fictional dystopian Ireland as democracy crumbles, totalitarianism prevails and families struggle. Characters must first ...

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song was the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize in November 2023. He was awarded a cash prize of £50,000 and the trophy. The novel is an exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational ...

Irish writer Paul Lynch, author of the dystopian novel "Prophet Song," won the Booker Prize for fiction at a ceremony in London on Sunday. LONDON — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for ...

Toward the end of Prophet Song, the harrowing novel that won this year's Booker Prize, Paul Lynch unspools a sentence that gathers momentum for more than a page before it seizes on a truth: "the end ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says that if you want to start the new year off with a stunning and topical work of literature, you should read "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch, the ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt’s much-quoted description of the “banality of evil” could be applied to the disquieting story told in Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. The Booker Prize-winning novel is a ...

Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel “Prophet Song,” the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards ...

The cover of "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch. (Courtesy of Grove Press) Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel "Prophet Song" portrays life in a fictional dystopian Ireland as democracy crumbles, ...