Greed

by Elfriede Jelinek

Genres: Literary Fiction; Women's Fiction

Synopsis

From the Nobel Prize-winning author ....

Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. In
her signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.

Release date: January 4, 2011

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Print pages: 336