Greed: A Novel |
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| Authors: | Jelinek, Elfriede |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC044000, FIC019000, LCO008000 |
| ISBN: | 9781609800406, Related ISBNs: 1583227571, 158322842X, 1609800400, 9781583227572, 9781583228425 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 336, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: From the Nobel Prize-winning author ....
Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. In
her signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.
Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. In
her signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.
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