WUNC

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

This is FRESH AIR. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says that if you want to start the new year off with a stunning and topical work of literature, you should read "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch, the ...
The New York Times

Paul Lynch Feared His Novel Would End His Career. It Won the Booker.

“Prophet Song” has earned comparisons to dystopian classics like “1984.” But Lynch downplays the book’s political message. This book, he says, was deeply personal. By Alexandra Alter When Paul Lynch ...
NPR

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 ...
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 ...