When Paul Lynch’s novel Prophet Song won the Booker Prize last week, the notorious non-event managed to generate some unexpected attention beyond the unhappy few that still read contemporary fiction. Lynch’s dystopia, set in a fascist authoritarian Ireland, found itself sharing headlines with the sort of vignette that might have popped up in his book. In the wake of a stabbing outside a primary school, an angry mob had rampaged through the streets of Dublin, driven by what the Garda had called a “far-right ideology”.
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