Greed

Elfriede Jelinek
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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. Inher signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.
Genres: FictionNobel PrizeMysteryGerman LiteratureLiteratureLiterary FictionContemporaryCrimeNovelsGermany
336 Pages

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