In Booker-winning 'Prophet Song,' the world ends slowly and then all at once
Briefly

the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore.
the sharp, insistent rapping that rains down upon the door of her Dublin home on the novel's first page.
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