03-18-2024, 09:12 AM
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Booker prize winner is a festival of depression. I guess the judges like that.
At some future point a totalitarian government rises in Ireland and starts taking away the freedom of the citizens. A rebel army arises and battles the government for control of the country. The whole story is viewed through the eyes of Eilish and her family. Through the course of the story her whole family gets whittled down. She loses her husband and then her two sons. The loss of the second son is the most brutal and I'm still thinking about it. Eilish deals with her father who lives across Dublin and battles dementia. It is one laugh riot after another.
The story covers all the different levels of the country's descent into chaos until finally Eilish and what is left of her family must flee the country. In a lot of ways Prophet Song depicts what happens to people and countries riven by war. There are even echoes to the Irish Civil War and the War of Independence. It is not a pleasant slog.
The Booker prize winner is a festival of depression. I guess the judges like that.
At some future point a totalitarian government rises in Ireland and starts taking away the freedom of the citizens. A rebel army arises and battles the government for control of the country. The whole story is viewed through the eyes of Eilish and her family. Through the course of the story her whole family gets whittled down. She loses her husband and then her two sons. The loss of the second son is the most brutal and I'm still thinking about it. Eilish deals with her father who lives across Dublin and battles dementia. It is one laugh riot after another.
The story covers all the different levels of the country's descent into chaos until finally Eilish and what is left of her family must flee the country. In a lot of ways Prophet Song depicts what happens to people and countries riven by war. There are even echoes to the Irish Civil War and the War of Independence. It is not a pleasant slog.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm