Sarah Bernstein has won the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Study for Obedience. The $100,000 prize is the richest in Canadian literature.
"I really, really couldn't believe it," she told CBC Books in an interview shortly after her win. "I'm having difficulty still assimilating information, but you sort of feel like it's a joke someone's playing on you or something."
Study for Obedience explores themes of guilt, abuse and prejudice through the eyes of its unreliable narrator. In it, a woman leaves her hometown to move to a "remote northern country" to be a housekeeper for her brother, whose wife recently decided to leave him. Soon after her arrival the community is struck by unusual events, from collective bovine hysteria to a potato blight.
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