Description
In the quiet, watchful towns of southern Austria, an ambitious country policeman, Kurt Janisch, becomes entangled in a web of desire, power, and violence after a dead girl is found in a lake. As his investigation unfolds, it draws him deeper into the lives of lonely women he seduces—relationships that reveal how easily authority can turn predatory and how “ordinary” cruelty can escalate into something far darker. Blending the momentum of a thriller with Jelinek’s razor-edged, Nobel Prize–winning prose, the novel examines greed in its many forms: lust, control, status, and the hunger to possess. With its sharp focus on gendered exploitation and the moral compromises of everyday life, Greed turns a local mystery into a chilling portrait of what people will do—and what they will justify—when desire and ambition collide.
Available Editions
paperback
Seven Stories Press
Published Jan 4, 2011
290 pages
ISBN: 9781609800406
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
deu
Translation
From: deu
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Greed by Elfriede Jelinek.