Greed

Elfriede Jelinek · 2000 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A rural Austrian policeman courts women who own property, and a drowned body surfaces in a lake near the village. The narrative is a long, mocking monologue on desire as acquisition, subtitled an entertainment novel. It was Jelinek's last novel before the Nobel Prize of 2004.

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