先知之歌（2023年布克奖长名单） Prophet Song
基本信息
Format:Hardback 320 pages
Publisher:Oneworld Publications
Imprint:Oneworld Publications
ISBN:9780861546459
Published:7 Sep 2023
Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
★ 入围 2023 年布克奖候选名单 **
★爱尔兰时报2023 年值得期待的图书
◎“《先知之歌》精彩地描绘了一个令人触目惊心的世界。爱尔兰的自由与民主滑向冷酷与恐惧的极权深渊，一位母亲则挺身而出，决心保护她的家人们。对读者而言，这本书紧随时代潮流，读来久久难以释怀。当今世界复杂多变，难以捉摸，而作为一名小说家，精准捕捉我们时代的社会焦虑与政治紧张，这是一项极为卓越的成就。”
——2023年布克奖评委团
◎“多年来，我从未读过一本书能如此强烈地震撼我... 与萨拉马戈、奥威尔、麦卡锡等人的作品进行比较是不可避免的，但这部小说完全可以自成一体。”——《阿佩罗贡》的作者科勒姆-麦肯
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无畏地描绘了一个行将崩溃的社会，记叙一位母亲为拯救家庭而奋战到底的英勇故事。
都柏林，一个阴暗潮湿的雨夜。敲门声响起，科学家、四个孩子的母亲艾莉什·斯塔克（Eilish Stack）去应门，发现两名警察出现在她家台阶上。两人送来一个消息，GNSB，爱尔兰新成立秘密警署正在审问她的丈夫，一名工会成员。
爱尔兰在分崩离析，整个国家屈服于暴力，埃利斯只能无助地看着她所熟悉的世界一点一点消失。这个恐怖的社会带来一个噩梦般的逻辑体系，她的丈夫和大儿子先后失踪，艾莉什发现自己也深陷其中。
为了拯救她的家人，艾莉什愿意付出什么代价？她愿意抛弃什么——或者说，抛弃谁?
《先知之歌》（Prophet Song）的故事令人振奋且惊恐，情节层层递进，是一部令人惊叹的原创作品，展现了一个战争国家的毁灭景象，以及一位母亲为维系家庭而奋斗的深刻人性写照。
'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023'
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret man are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?
Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
作者简介
保罗-林奇（Paul Lynch）著有长篇小说《晨曦中的红天》、《黑雪》、《格雷斯》和《海外》。格蕾丝》荣获2018年凯里集团爱尔兰年度小说奖，并入围沃尔特-斯科特历史小说奖和2018年威廉-萨洛扬国际写作奖。《黑雪》获得法国外国小说奖（Prix Libr'à Nous），并入围外国图书奖（Prix du Meilleur Livre ?tranger）。他与妻子和两个孩子住在都柏林。
Paul Lynch is the author of the novels Red Sky in Morning, The Black Snow, Grace and Beyond the Sea. Grace won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018 and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2018. The Black Snow won France's Prix Libr'à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and was a finalist for the Prix du Meilleur Livre ?tranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.
