Nov 17, 2009 · Starting in 1952, you meet Claire, a niave young English woman, who comes to Hong Kong with her new husband and is hired by the influential Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. You find out some of Claire's unique characteristics before the story switches to eleven years earlier.

The novel follows protagonist Erika Kohut (German: [ˈeːʁika ˈkoːhʊt]), a sexually and emotionally repressed piano teacher, as she enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student, Walter Klemmer (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈklɛmɐ]), the results of which are disastrous.

Oct 1, 2009 · The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother.

Jan 1, 2001 · The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.

Jan 13, 2009 · Months after her husband is transferred to Hong Kong in 1951, she accepts a position as a piano teacher to the daughter of a wealthy couple, the Chens. Claire begins to see the appeal of the sweltering city and is soon taken in by the Chen's driver, the curiously underutilized Will Truesdale.

Jan 13, 2009 · Starting in 1952, you meet Claire, a niave young English woman, who comes to Hong Kong with her new husband and is hired by the influential Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. You find out some of Claire's unique characteristics before the story switches to eleven years earlier.

The Piano Teacher is a spellbinding tale of human frailty and passions reminiscent of The English Patient and Empire of the Sun. In alternating narratives, debut novelist Janice Y. K. Lee, brilliantly evokes Trudy, Will, and Claire’s tragic love triangle against the relative calm of 1950s Hong Kong and the glittering pre-war era’s decline ...

Nov 8, 2013 · In this novel Austria’s working class is the central concern. When one thinks of the novelists concerned with working class experience in the 20th century they are nearly all men …