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The Piano Teacher: A Novel
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From the Nobel Prizewinning Austrian author: a "brilliant, uncompromising" novel that "gets behind the creampuff prettiness of Vienna" (Publishers Weekly).
In The Piano Teacher, 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.
Erika Kohut, piano teacher at the prestigi...
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