- Fiction, erotica, Fiction, content_warning:cover
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watches sadomasochistic films.
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Grave, bleak, intimate and prestige.
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- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Elfriede Jelinek
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Serpent's Tail, Grove Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781555840525
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“THE PIANO TEACHER, Erika Kohut, bursts like a whirlwind into the apartment she shares with her mother.”
Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʁiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". Next to Peter Handke and Botho Strauss she is considered to be the most important living playwright of the German language. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Jelinek)
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