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Study for Obedience

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Study for Obedience

Auteur(s): Sarah Bernstein
Narrateur(s): Sarah Bernstein
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 WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize
Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, 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. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Psychologique
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This is the type of book that wins awards — which it did. Not because it’s a gripping story or particularly compelling, but rather because it defies expectations and is “challenging.”

The author clearly has a command of the English language. Her style makes sure you know that. If you enjoy authors that like to flex their vocabulary muscles and take four sentences to describe mundane tasks, this book is for you. If you prefer books with plot and a semblance of a narrative arch, not so much.

It’s a stream of consciousness mess that is supposed to be an allegory of antisemitism. A worthwhile topic, for sure, but I question how well it was executed

It won the Giller and was shortlisted for the Booker so some people obviously like it—or feel they are supposed to, anyway—but I’d give this one a pass, unless you really like this kind of…challenge.

Not for everyone

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The overuse of words from the authors thesaurus became irritating early on. As well the narrator’s voice was flat and boring, made for going to sleep.

I am happy to finish this book. I meant to finish it several times but went back to the story because I wondered if anything could redeem it. On my last attempt, thinking so couldn’t stand it anymore, I noticed that there was only a few minutes left in Chapter 6 and then a short Chapter 7, So once more I persevered to no avail.

Utterly boring.

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It didn’t flow and it wasn’t enjoyable . I wouldn’t waste your time and spend your money on it. I’m sure the author is a good writer because she sounds intellectual and educated but it is not an easy read

No plot

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This is a clever book that’s difficult to grasp. I really don’t get much of it. I read it because it’s a Canadian writer’s novel on the Booker Prize shortlist.

I think it would greatly benefit from an actor reading it. They might be able to bring out some humour and pathos. The author is OK but her delivery is flat, almost monotone. That may have been intentional, but it doesn’t work well here.

Better if a profession had performed it

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This book was beautifully written and performed by the author. I especially appreciated the rich and complex vocabulary that painted the picture of this small town. I was constantly perplexed by the story and where it was going, always on the edge of something sinister and other which I loved and appreciated.

Beautifully Written

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