New Hampshire Public Radio

In Booker-winning 'Prophet Song,' the world ends slowly and then all at once

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 ...
CNN

Irish writer Paul Lynch’s dystopian novel ‘Prophet Song’ wins 2023 Booker Prize

Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel “Prophet Song,” the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards ...
The New York Times

Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize for ‘Prophet Song’

The judges for the prestigious award were not unanimous in their decision to select this novel, which depicts an Ireland descending into totalitarianism. By Alex Marshall When Paul Lynch, the Irish ...
NPR

'Prophet Song' is a beautifully-written, slow descent into fascism

Most of the characters in Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel don't want to believe that tyranny is taking shape before their eyes, even as power is cut off and democratic freedoms evaporate. This ...