Greed Paperback / softback
by Elfriede Jelinek
Paperback / softback
Description
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 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.
But as always Jelinek gives the reader a lot more to think about: the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden and inadequacy of our everyday words, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, the impossibility of life without relationships.
A meditative reflection on ageing, Greed is another chapter in Jelinek?s chronicling of her love/hate relationship with Austria.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/10/2008
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- ISBN:9781846686665
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846686665