num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: Greed
titlecomplete: Greed
characters: Kurt Janisch
genres: Literature, Crime, German Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Germany, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 492
places: Austria
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Γερμανόφωνη Λογοτεχνία
publisher: Seven Stories Press