{"product_id":"the-piano-teacher-a-novel","title":"The Piano Teacher: A Novel","description":"From the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a \"brilliant, uncompromising\" novel that \"gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna\" (Publishers Weekly).\nIn The Piano Teacher, 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.\nErika 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.\nAwarded 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.\nThe Piano Teacher was made into an acclaimed film by Michael Haneke in 2001.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0802144616\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0802144616.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Jelinek, Elfriede\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41508641931322,"sku":"DBV.0802144616.A","price":10.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0802144616-0.jpg?v=1783360945","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-piano-teacher-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}