Madeleine Thien, 2017 (3.9/5 on Goodreads)ī / Waterstones / Blackwell’s / Audible The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke in 2001, which won three major prizes at Cannes. Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece. With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man Walter Klemmer. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by Women. Elfriede Jelinek, 1983 (3.6/5 on Goodreads)
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