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Study for Obedience
Booker Prize · 2023 · ShortlistScotiabank Giller Prize · 2023 · Winner
Grantaliterary-fiction
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2023 | Shortlist |
| Scotiabank Giller Prize | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
A woman moves to a cold northern country to care for her demanding brother and finds herself the object of suspicion from the insular local community. A formally radical and deeply unsettling novel about female submission, scapegoating, and the uncanny.
About the Author
Sarah BernsteinCanadian
Sarah Bernstein is a Canadian writer based in Scotland. She is the author of Study for Obedience (2023), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 and the Giller Prize. The novel follows a narrator who moves to a northern European country to keep house for her brother, and is written in a dense, unsettling style that explores complicity, prejudice, and the history of antisemitism. Read more →
