The Piano Teacher

by Jelinek, Elfriede
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ISBN: 9781852427504
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The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first--but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Jelinek, Elfriede
  • ISBN: 9781852427504
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.78 x 0.77
  • Number Of Pages: 280
  • Publication Year: 2002

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