01290cam a2200205 i 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003202000250007304000130009804100080011108200180011910000260013724500320016326000520019530000310024752007530027865000290103165000240106011479IN-BhIIT20260529170431.0230831s2023    nyu           000 1 eng    a9780861546862 (pbk.)  aIN-BhIIT  aeng00a823.92bLYN/P1 aLynch, Paul,eAuthor.10aProphet song /cPaul Lynch.  aUnited Kingdom :bOneworld Publications,c2023.  a309 pages :bill. ;c22 cm  aOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what-or who-is she willing to leave behind? Exhilarating, terrifying, and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.  aTotalitarianismvfiction  aDystopian vfiction