{"product_id":"obedience-isbn-9780143120674","title":"Obedience","description":"Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of  Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt- ridden past.\u003cp\u003eA once -bustling convent in the South of France is closing, leaving  behind three elderly nuns. Forced, for the first time, to confront the  community that she betrayed decades ago, Sister Bernard relives her  life during the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty, Sister Bernard can hear the voice of God-strident,  furious, and personal. When a young Nazi soldier, a member of the  German occupying forces, asks her to meet him in the church in secret  one evening, she agrees. And so begins the horrifying and passionate  love affair that will deafen the heavens and define her life, tempting  her into duplicity. \u003ci\u003eObedience\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful exploration of one  woman's struggle to reconcile her aching need to be loved with her fear  of God's wrath.\u003c\/p\u003e\"An intensely imagined novel about one of the defining questions of the  century just past: where and how we choose to draw the line between  innocence and guilt, ignorance and complicity. \u003ci\u003eObedience\u003c\/i\u003e also asks  us to consider what ghastly harm is committed in the name of love. It's  rare to find a book that is seemingly so simple, but is really ambiguous  and thought-provoking.\" — \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel, Man Booker-Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With delicacy and restraint, Jacqueline Yallop lets us get close to her  characters yet never judges them--crucial, when dealing with the self- deluded and the self-righteous.  \u003ci\u003eObedience\u003c\/i\u003e is the best kind of  Occupation romance:  forbidden, tortured and indelible.\" — \u003cb\u003eStewart O'Nan, author of \u003ci\u003eEmily Alone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yallop's exploration of the space between innocence and guilt, of  complicity and delusion has a lingering power.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eObedience\u003c\/i\u003e will give you no answers about good and evil, innocence, guilt, holiness, God, or obedience. What you will receive is a riveting story that haunts and provokes and subverts easily held assumptions, tosses them in the air and then makes you keep thinking long after you've read the last page.\" — \u003cb\u003eBeverly Donofrio, author of \u003ci\u003eRiding in Cars with Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The character of Sister Bernard is a Madame Bovary of the convent world.  Her fantasy and insatiable need for love prove to be far greater than her  ability to analyze character.   While superficially simplistic,  her  relationship with God is complex and she is capable of battling God with  the strength of Joan of Arc. These contradictions in her character  are  seamless and a complex and unforgettable character emerges.\" — \u003cb\u003eCatherine Gildiner, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Falls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The deceptively quiet writing style of this compelling novel operates in  perfect counterpoint to the intense drama of the story it reveals. A  thoughtful and troubling look at the consequences of love, faith, blame,  and betrayal, with the ferocious voice of God hovering above it all.\" — \u003cb\u003eDiane Schoemperlen, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Lost and Found\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacqueline Yallop\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eKissing Alice\u003c\/i\u003e,  shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize. \u003ci\u003eObedience\u003c\/i\u003e is her American  debut. Formerly curator of the John Ruskin Museum in Sheffield,  England, she now lives in the South of France.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301274702053,"sku":"NP9780143120674","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143120674.jpg?v=1767733979","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/obedience-isbn-9780143120674","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}