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Irish author Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning fifth novel is a well timed and pressing e-book described as highly effective, claustrophobic and terribly actual, capturing the social and political anxieties of our time. The e-book is about in a dystopian Dublin, within the grip of totalitarianism. Among the themes of ‘Prophet Track’ sound eerily much like the riots that broke out in Dublin final week. ‘Prophet Track’ additionally displays the violence in Palestine, Ukraine and Syria, and the expertise of all these fleeing war-torn nations. The creator speaks to Eve Jackson, tradition editor of FRANCE 24, about profitable probably the most prestigious literary prize within the English-speaking world, writing the Irish descendants of “The Handmaid’s Story” and “Nineteen Eighty-4” – and the place he acquired his begin. spends prize cash on.
Paul Lynch is an internationally acclaimed Irish novelist who has printed 5 novels, profitable a number of awards. Earlier than “Prophet Track”, Lynch wrote “Past the Sea”, “Grace”, “The Black Snow” and “Pink Sky in Morning”.
His third novel, “Grace,” gained the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the 12 months and the 2020 Eire Francophonie Ambassadors’ Literary Award. His second novel, “The Black Snow,” gained the French booksellers’ prize, Prix Libr’à Nous, for Finest Overseas Novel.
