Study for Obedience

Study for Obedience

  • 作者: Bernstein, Sarah
  • 原文出版社:Knopf Canada
  • 出版日期:2023/08/22
  • 語言:英文
  • 定價:872
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  • 臺灣與離島
  • 海外
  • 可配送點:台灣、蘭嶼、綠島、澎湖、金門、馬祖
  • 可取貨點:台灣、蘭嶼、綠島、澎湖、金門、馬祖
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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

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.

 

作者介紹

SARAH BERNSTEIN is from Montreal, Quebec and lives in the highlands of Scotland. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in places like tender, Contemporary Women’s Writing, MAP, Granta, and Room Magazine. She teaches modern and contemporary literature and her first novel, The Coming Bad Days, was published in 2021.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9781039009066
  • 規格:精裝 / 208頁 / 20.32 x 13.18 x 1.35 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國

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