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Study for Obedience

by Sarah Bernstein
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Study for Obedience
Study for Obedience

Dissects complicity's roots in power and faith.

"Study for Obedience" delves deeply into the psychological tangle of why individuals comply with authority, even when it betrays their own moral compass. It's a haunting exploration that will resonate with anyone fascinated by the darker aspects of human nature and the complex interplay between personal responsibility and societal pressure. The book's brevity does not shy away from delivering a potent, thought-provoking punch that will linger with you long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2023)
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize (2023)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee for Translation (French-language) (2025)
  • Saltire Society Literary Award Nominee for Fiction Book of the Year (2024)
  • The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books Nominee for Longlist (2024)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2025)
  • Highland Book Prize Nominee (2023)
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Study for Obedience

by Sarah Bernstein
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ISBN: 9781783789931
Authors: Sarah Bernstein
Date of Publication: 2023-07-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Horror
Related Topics: Literature, Gothic, Supernatural, Literary Criticism, Paranormal, Mystery, Feminism
Goodreads rating: 3.01
(rated by 13370 readers)

Description

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.' And as she feels the hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knows what might happen, what one might be capable of doing. With a sharp, lyrical voice, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance. Study for Obedience is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
 

Dissects complicity's roots in power and faith.

"Study for Obedience" delves deeply into the psychological tangle of why individuals comply with authority, even when it betrays their own moral compass. It's a haunting exploration that will resonate with anyone fascinated by the darker aspects of human nature and the complex interplay between personal responsibility and societal pressure. The book's brevity does not shy away from delivering a potent, thought-provoking punch that will linger with you long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2023)
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize (2023)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee for Translation (French-language) (2025)
  • Saltire Society Literary Award Nominee for Fiction Book of the Year (2024)
  • The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books Nominee for Longlist (2024)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2025)
  • Highland Book Prize Nominee (2023)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.