Prophet Song

For the first time in Russian, the debut novel by contemporary Irish writer Paul Lynch is presented. The book won the Booker Prize in 2023 for “The Song of the Prophet.” The novel is already being compared to “1984” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “The Sky Is Red at Dawn” is a deep meditation on the cruelty of people and the indifference of nature. In a work described as a “transcontinental western,” Coll Coyl—Grace Coyl’s father from “Grace”—commits an unintentional killing and is forced to leave Ireland. Across the Atlantic and American lands, he is pursued by John Foller, a character reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Blood Meridian.”