Dystopian novel wins Booker Prize
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Paul Lynch's Prophet Song seeks to show the unrest in Western democracies and their indifference towards disasters. Photo: Getty Imgaes
Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel Prophet Song, the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny.