Prophet song / Paul Lynch ; read by Gerry O'Brien.
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SoundPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2024]Copyright date: ℗2023Edition: MP3 edition ; UnabridgedDescription: 1 MP3 CD (8 hr., 32 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781038662118Subject(s): Ireland. Garda Síochána -- Fiction | Civil war -- Ireland -- Fiction | Despotism -- Ireland -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Fascism -- Ireland -- Fiction | Labor union members -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Mothers -- Fiction | National security -- Ireland -- Fiction | Dublin (Ireland) -- FictionGenre/Form: Audiobooks. | Dystopian fiction. | Political fiction. | Social problem fiction. Awards: The Booker Prize 2023 shortlist.Read by Gerry O'Brien.Summary: 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.
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The Booker Prize 2023 shortlist.
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.
Read by Gerry O'Brien.
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