Study for Obedience: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Couverture rigide

Bernstein, Sarah

 
9781783789931: Study for Obedience: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
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ISBN 10 : 178378993X ISBN 13 : 9781783789931
Editeur : Granta Books, 2023

Synopsis

A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Bernstein is from Montreal, Canada, and lives in the Northwest Highlands. She is the author of The Coming Bad Days and Now Comes the Lightning. Granta Books will publish Study for Obedience in 2023.

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A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...

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Éditeur
Granta Books
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178378993X
ISBN 13 
9781783789931
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
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ISBN 10 :  1039009069 ISBN 13 :  9781039009066
Editeur : Knopf Canada, 2023
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