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Translated by Martin Chalmers
In her first novel published in English after winning the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elfriede Jelinek delivers a stunning and unforgettable book, writing in her signature style and chronicling the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.
Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime.
In her first novel published in English after winning the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elfriede Jelinek delivers a stunning and unforgettable book, writing in her signature style and chronicling the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.
Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime.
Translated by Martin Chalmers
In her first novel published in English after winning the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elfriede Jelinek delivers a stunning and unforgettable book, writing in her signature style and chronicling the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the ...
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The leading Austrian writer of her generation, ELFRIEDE JELINEK received the Heinrich Böll Prize for her contribution to German literature in 1986. The film by Michael Haneke of The Piano Teacher won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In 2004, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in Vienna. In awarding Jelinek the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy wrote that the "extraordinary linguistic zeal" of her writing reveals "the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power."
The leading Austrian writer of her generation, ELFRIEDE JELINEK received the Heinrich Böll Prize for her contribution to German literature in 1986. The film by Michael Haneke of The Piano Teacher won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In 2004, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature....
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