The Piano Teacher: A Novel

Type

Book

Authors

Elfriede Jelinek

ISBN 10

0802144616

ISBN 13

9780802144614

Tags

United States, Literary

Description

The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek,The Piano Teacheris 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 firstbut then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher’s subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation. - from Amzon

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