The Prophet's Song

The novel is set in modern Ireland, but it could happen in any country. On a dark, rainy evening in Dublin, the police visit the home of scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack. The employees of the newly created secret institution have come for her husband Larry, the leader of the teachers' union.

Ireland is sliding towards tyranny, protests are growing in the country, Eilish's husband and eldest son Mark join the protesters, and the woman herself witnesses how the country's authorities - unrestrained and immoral - commit arbitrariness and abuse, suppress any manifestations of freedom, resort to repression and start a war against her own people.

Eilish, in despair, sees how the world she knew disappears, how her life, which she cherished, is destroyed. Will she be able to save her family? And what will it cost her?

"Song of the Prophet" is a cautionary tale that provokes reflection on our vulnerability. It is a poignant prose and at the same time a ruthless portrait of a society that, despite its stability, can find itself on the edge of an abyss.