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GREED
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| By: |
Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846686660 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846686665 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 October, 2008 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty - particularly lonely, middle-aged women. Matters go from bad to worse. Someone sees too much, knows too much. Soon there's a body in a lake and a murderer to be caught. |
| Synopsis: |
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life - at least not fast enough. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty - particularly women. Lonely, middle-aged women, women with a bit of property perhaps... Matters go from bad to worse: for Kurt Janisch, for the women who fall for him. Someone sees too much, knows too much. 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 most accessible novel since The Piano Teacher. But as always Jelinek gives the reader a lot more to think about: the ecological costs of affluence, the inescapable burden and inadequacy of our everyday words, the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, the impossibility of life without relationships. A meditative reflection on ageing, Greed is another chapter in Jelinek?s chronicling of her love/hate relationship with Austria. |
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UK |
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Serpent's Tail |
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Non-returnable |
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