ELFRIEDE JELINEK

Elle ne boit pas, ne fume pas, couche encore à 36 ans dans le lit maternel et aime bien rester chez elle. Chaque fois que ses horaires de professeur de piano au conservatoire de Vienne le lui permettent, elle se plaît à fréquenter les cinémas pornos, les peep-shows et les fourrés du Prater. Et quand un de ses étudiants tombe amoureux d'elle, Eri...

The first English translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's astonishing, provocative...

The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a women's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realise that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for Heinz, a young, ...

Erika Kohut, a 40-year-old is a piano teacher who still lives with her mother. While her mother waits up for her, Erika trawls the seedy side of contemporary Vienna, visiting porn shows and peep shows. Her Jekyll and Hyde existence is disturbed by a handsome young piano student.