{"product_id":"the-piano-teacher","title":"The Piano Teacher","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Piano Teacher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eElfriede Jelinek\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802144614\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a \"brilliant, uncompromising\" novel that \"gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna\" (Publishers Weekly).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e, Elfride Jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable woman fashioned by society into a ticking bomb. Set in 1980s Vienna, it describes a culture rotting under the weight of its oppressive, outmoded ideals--a place mirrored by the heroine's own repressed dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErika Kohut, piano teacher at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory, is a quiet woman devoted to Bach, Beethoven, and her domineering mother. Her life consists of desperate boredom, neurotic possessiveness, and hopeless dreams of a concert career whose hour has long passed. Enter Walter Klemmer--a handsome, arrogant man out to conquer Erika's affections. Suddenly the dangerous passions roiling under her subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity and long-buried violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Nobel and the Heinrich Boll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in Austria today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Piano Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e was made into an acclaimed film by Michael Haneke in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"The Piano Teacher | Elfriede Jelinek | Paperback | 9780802144614 | New | Fiction 1199651","offer_id":67724443320472,"sku":"1199651","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71f0M1h3D3L.jpg?v=1792065841","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-piano-teacher","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}