BOOKS FROM AUSTRIAThe Piano Teacher
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Set in Austria
Female author
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The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising."
