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 ...
Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, which won the Booker Prize 2023, has been routinely called Orwellian or Atwoodesque and is even compared to the film Apocalypse Now. This brings out the insistence of ...
While judges Prophet Song as 'propulsive and unsparing,' critics have been less warm, branding it the 'weakest book on the shortlist' that won't 'stand the test of time'. Set in a dystopian fictional ...
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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 ...
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 ...