Author: Elfriede Jelinek
Publisher: Seven Stories
2007
Her first novel published in English since becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.
“A relentlessly bleak examination of patriarchy, bourgeois values, and violence against women, it is also an elegy for the natural world, polluted by the metaphorical murderer’s indifference to all Others, human and otherwise: this is horror with an uncompromising moral vision. —Publishers Weekly