In this chilling dystopia, Paul Lynch tells a country that has become totalitarian through the gaze of an Irish mother alone in the face of the rise of oppression. An intimate and overwhelming story.
The originality of this dystopia lies in the fact that it recounts life in a state that has become totalitarian by the prism of a lambda family.
We are in Ireland, when an extremist party has just taken power. The father, teacher and union official, was arrested during a demonstration. Where is it? No one knows. His wife, Eilish, mother of four, finds herself alone, distraught, faced with a regime which, little by little, hardens his laws to the point that many people are thinking of fleeing the country. But Eilish, for the moment, has no other concern than taking care of his children and preserving them from the ambient threat. Until when will she be able to hold?
It is a terrifying and fascinating novel that offers us Paul Lynch. Dystopia in the purest tradition of the genre. But, unlike other stories, here we will not know anything or almost from the system, its organization and its leaders. Only the point of view of this Irish family and those around him is described, thus allowing the reader to understand what can feel and live Eilish, this scientist living in anxiety, and who finds himself having to manage his children and a widowed father, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The language of Paul Lynch is precise, without affect, carefully describing the psychological brutality exerted on citizens, the gradual reduction of freedoms, censorship, prohibitions, and how the vice is tightened on Eilish and his family.
A deeply disturbing novel, frightening by its realism, recalling what the peoples of the Eastern countries, of South America or the Jews were able to live during the Second World War.
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Publisher: Albin Michel
292 pages – 22,90€
Date of publication: January 2, 2025
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