Study for obedience
Bernstein, Sarah (Literature teacher)2024
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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; 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.
Main title:
Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein.
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Imprint:
London : Granta, 2024.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781803510019 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Related title:
Study for Obedience [electronic resource] : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
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BRN:
2432968