Greed (novel)
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| - | :Kurt Janisch is an ambitious but frustrated country policeman who gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty, particularly lonely, middle-aged women with a bit of extra property. Things go from bad to worse for Kurt Janisch and the women who fall for him. Someone sees and knows too much, and 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 first major new novel to appear in English since The Piano Teacher. In it, Jelinek touches on the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden of language, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the impossibility of life without relationships.{{GFDL}} | + | :Kurt Janisch is an ambitious but frustrated country policeman who gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty, particularly lonely, middle-aged women with a bit of extra property. Things go from bad to worse for Kurt Janisch and the women who fall for him. Someone sees and knows too much, and 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 first major new novel to appear in English since ''[[The Piano Teacher]]''. In it, Jelinek touches on the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden of language, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the impossibility of life without relationships.{{GFDL}} |
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- Kurt Janisch is an ambitious but frustrated country policeman who gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty, particularly lonely, middle-aged women with a bit of extra property. Things go from bad to worse for Kurt Janisch and the women who fall for him. Someone sees and knows too much, and 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 first major new novel to appear in English since The Piano Teacher. In it, Jelinek touches on the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden of language, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the impossibility of life without relationships.
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