
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch · 2023
Ireland slides toward fascism in the near future as a mother tries to hold her family together. Lynch writes in long, breathless, unpunctuated sentences that create a state of sustained dread. A formal achievement as significant as its subject, and the most urgent political novel of the decade.
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