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.
Author: Elfriede Jelinek
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780802144614
Language: English
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