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Sponsored by the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme, Culture Ireland, and Center for the Art of Translation
Co-presented with Irish Culture Bay Area

If the accolades for Irish writer Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song are any indication, the novel is no less than required reading for our turbulent times. Awarded the 2023 Booker Prize, Lynch’s fifth novel recounts in exacting, all-too-plausible detail the inexorable descent of Ireland’s liberal democracy into authoritarian rule. Booker Prize chair Esi Edugyan called the novel “soul-shattering and true,” and noted that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.” Join us for one of Lynch’s few North American events in honor of the paperback release of Prophet Song; he will be in conversation with Irish writer Ethel Rohan, author most recently of the novel Sing, I. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Mrs.Dalloway's Bookstore of Literary and Garden Arts

This event will also be live-streamed and videorecorded for those unable to attend in person. This event will also be live-streamed and videorecorded for those unable to attend in person. Please find livestream on Facebook or YouTube.

Mrs. Dalloway's Books in Berkeley will have extra signed copies of Prophet Song available for purchase after the event.
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Ethel Rohan

San Francisco–based Irish author Ethel Rohan is an award-winning essayist, novelist, and short story writer. Most recently, her short story collection In the Event of Contact won the Dzanc Prize, the Eric Hoffer Prize, and a Gold Independent Publisher Book Award for Best European... Read More →
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Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of five novels — Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow, and Red Sky in Morning. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Strega European Award and the A Post Irish Novel of the... Read More →

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