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From the 2004 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes this shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.
Quiet, thirty-eight-year-old Erika Kohut teaches piano at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory and lives with her possessive, domineering mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed young student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior eventually explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.
Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The film adaptation of The Piano Teacher, released in the United States in 2001, won several major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Jury Prize.
