The Piano Teacher (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Elfriede Jelinek
Dimensions:	209 x 141 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-4461-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8021-4461-6
Barcode:	9780802144614

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