{"product_id":"the-piano-teacher-elfriede-jelinek-paperback","title":"The Piano Teacher -- Elfriede Jelinek, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a \"brilliant, uncompromising\" novel that \"gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna\" (Publishers Weekly).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e, Elfride Jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable woman fashioned by society into a ticking bomb. Set in 1980s Vienna, it describes a culture rotting under the weight of its oppressive, outmoded ideals--a place mirrored by the heroine's own repressed dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErika Kohut, piano teacher at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory, is a quiet woman devoted to Bach, Beethoven, and her domineering mother. Her life consists of desperate boredom, neurotic possessiveness, and hopeless dreams of a concert career whose hour has long passed. Enter Walter Klemmer--a handsome, arrogant man out to conquer Erika's affections. Suddenly the dangerous passions roiling under her subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity and long-buried violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Nobel and the Heinrich Boll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in Austria today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Piano Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e was made into an acclaimed film by Michael Haneke in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Elfriede Jelinek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/1\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.22\" H x 5.56\" L x 0.82\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780802144614\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51745149780267,"sku":"9780802144614","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780802144614.jpg?v=1774871402","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/the-piano-teacher-elfriede-jelinek-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}