GREED

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Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated, country policeman. Things are not going right in his life – at least not fast enough. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty – particularly women. Lonely, middle-aged women, women with a little bit of property perhaps… Matters go from bad to worse: for Kurt Janisch, for the women who fall for him. Someone sees too much, knows too much. Soon there’s a body in a lake and a murderer to be caught.

A Thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, ‘Greed’ is Elfriede Jelinek’s most accessible novel since “The Piano Teacher”. As always, Jelinek gives the reader a lot more to think about: the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden and inadequacy of everyday words, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, the impossibility of life without relationships. In ‘Greed’, a powerful reflection on ageing, Jelinek expresses her love/hate relationship with Austria, producing a mesmerising portrait of evil.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 02.01.2002
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-23131-5
  • 464 Pages
  • Author: Elfriede Jelinek

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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek , who was born in 1946 and grew up in Vienna, now lives in Vienna and Munich. She has received numerous awards for her literary works, which include not only novels but also plays, poetry, essays, translations, radio plays, screenplays and opera librettos. Her awards include the Georg Büchner Prize and the Franz Kafka Prize for Literature. In 2004 she was awarded with Nobel Prize for Literature.