商品描述
On 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 towards 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?
The winner of the Booker Prize 2023, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《先知之歌》是2023年布克獎得主,也是全國暢銷書。故事發生在一個黑暗潮濕的都柏林晚上,科學家兼四個孩子的母親艾莉絲·斯塔克在家門口迎接了兩名來自愛爾蘭新成立的秘密警察的官員。他們來詢問她的丈夫,一名工會成員。
愛爾蘭正在分崩離析,政府正走向專制。當她所熟悉的生活和所愛的人在她眼前消失時,艾莉絲必須應對她新的、正在解體的國家的反烏托邦邏輯。為了拯救家人,她會走多遠?她願意放棄什麼或者誰?
《先知之歌》以恐怖和震撼的方式展示了一個國家滑向威權主義的景象,同時深入描繪了一個母親為了維護家庭團結而奮鬥的形象。
作者簡介
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Paul Lynch是小說《Red Sky in Morning》、《The Black Snow》、《Grace》和《Beyond the Sea》的作者。《Grace》獲得了2018年Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year的獎項,並入圍了Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction和William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2018。《The Black Snow》獲得了法國Prix Libr'à Nous最佳外國小說獎,並入圍了Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger(最佳外國書獎)的決賽。他居住在都柏林,其網站為www.paullynchwriter.com。