Greed

A Novel

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Product Details

Format Hardcover
ISBN-10 1583227571
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-757-2
Publication Date Apr 2007
Nb of pages 336
Dimensions 6 x 8 in.

Format Paperback
ISBN-10 158322842X
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-842-5
Publication Date Nov 2008
Nb of pages 336
Dimensions 6 x 8 in.


Description

Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize

In her first novel published in English since becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek delivers a stunning and unforgettable book.


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.


Reviews

Press Reviews

The List
Greed is another intriguing and challenging novel from Europe’s cleverest, most visceral social phobic.

Guardian (UK)
[In Greed], Jelinek gives us a startling glimpse . . . of what women are, as well as answering Freud’s question, ‘What do women want?’ It’s neither gentle nor sweet nor safe nor reasonable—just true.
- Lucy Ellman



Experts

Elfriede Jelinek is magnificent.
-Mary Gaitskill, on Elfriede Jelinek