Prophet Song byPaul Lynch

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This rapid-paced Kafkaesque nightmare is a portent of what may happen in my country if the present political dispensation gets more rabid. To keep the momentum of the narrative, the author brooks no interventions like quotations marks or paragraph breaks. His pen hits the accelerator and keeps it pressed till the end.
State-sponsored terrorism starts with taking over cultural institutions

if you change ownership of the institutions, then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon.

The protagonist watches helplessly as her father slides into senile dementia

She is watching her father’s mind, seeing at work the neurological weather, a zone of low pressure giving to sudden inclemency, in five minutes’ time there will be sunshine.

Unputdownable! A fictionalized account of extremism wins a literary prize, but the world is mute to the harsh reality of Gaza!

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