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...“Prophet Song is partly an attempt at radical empathy. To understand better, we must first experience the problem for ourselves,” Lynch said....
...In his fascinating book The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War, US economist Robert J Gordon — whom the IMF once dubbed the “prophet of pessimism” — raises related...
...The Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel Prophet Song, a dystopian portrait of the everyday realities of a country which has descended into authoritarian tyranny...
...I think a decent bout of mirror gazing might be more appropriate for the prophets of recession, job losses and general pestilence....
The financial crisis for office buildings has lured back the prophet of flexible working
...A vague positioning as a prophet of feminism and social mobility seems a stretch. “Harlotry is better than cooking” is the closest we get to a credo....
...The set in Trafalgar Square will begin with a traditional sequence of three qawwals, the first to the Almighty, the next to the Prophet and the third to Hazrat Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet....
...Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Oneworld, £16.99, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...If Prophet Song is any guide, that is hardly a comfortable place to be....
...Bernard Butler’s production edges up the grit and rage and the words will start to tumble out of Lee with the urgency of an Old Testament prophet. Lee came to prominence as a folk-song collector....
...— Active management today is a single decision (Capital Allocators) — The new prophets of empathy (The Baffler) — Signs of life in the European CMBS market (TwentyFour) — The agribusiness pact in Brazil...
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...Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song sold 6,000 copies in the 16 weeks prior to its Booker win and 63,000 copies in the 16 weeks after, according to Nielsen BookData....
...The attacks came on a public holiday as the nation celebrated the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad, the last of the Muslim prophets....
...Yet the president seems almost too comfortable with the idea of being a prophet in the wilderness....
...“I do not want to be a prophet of doom — but unless there is a major breakthrough, then we will have to stop and reconsider everything . . ....
...The portentous prophet is Merlin (Nathaniel Martello-White), who prophesies that Britain will come to ruin unless Arthur returns to fight the evil forces coveting a crown whose heir is in doubt....
...The not-for-profit prophet was fired while ministering to a cybernated spirit trumpet, then rehired after those left in charge couldn’t figure out how anything was meant to work....
...It strikes me now as classic Ugrešić — the voice of a sardonic prophet speaking from a corner of the wilderness, revealing truths that made you laugh until you cried....
...Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Bolinda Audio, 8 hrs 32 mins) Ireland on the brink of dictatorship is the bold premise of Lynch’s Booker-shortlisted novel, here narrated with deadpan menace by Gerry O’Brien....
...”, as a far-seeing sage, face and aureole of white hair brilliantly spotlit, is characteristic of her depiction of illustrious men as exalted beings — the scientist has the gravitas of an Old Testament prophet...
...john.burn-murdoch@ft.com, @jburnmurdoch Letter in response to this column: Why the prophet of pessimism may be right about innovation / From Cynthia Miyashita, Gatika, Biscay, Spain...
...Prophet is certainly a gear change for Macdonald, renowned for her bestselling 2014 grief memoir H is for Hawk....
...Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year’s Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy] has been amazing,” he says....
...Kyle Ketelsen’s Jochanaan is a lithe and agile prophet, less dark in vocal colour than most interpreters of the role, more of an everyman....
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